Re: [Publicity] Xen Project Hypervisor 4.5 blog

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Sarah,

Just a small nit about PVH.

El 04/01/15 a les 23.53, Sarah Conway ha escrit:
<SNIP>
>    - PVH initial domain support for Intel has been added and now supports
>    running as dom0 with Linux platforms. PVH is an extension to the classic
                               ^ and FreeBSD
>    Xen Project Paravirtualization (PV) that uses the hardware virtualization
>    extensions available on modern x86 processor servers. Requiring no
>    additional support other than the hypervisor, PVH boots as the first guest
>    and takes on the responsibilities of the initial domain known as dom0. This
>    means Xen Project Hypervisor is able to take advantage of contemporary
>    hardware features like virtual machine extensions (VMX) to significantly
>    expedite execution of the initial domain. Instead of asking the hypervisor
>    to handle certain operations, the dom0 can execute operations natively
>    without compromising security. For more background, Virtualization
>    Spectrum
>    <http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Understanding_the_Virtualization_Spectrum> is
>    an excellent introduction to PVH.


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