Re: [Xen-devel] Understanding the Xen Implementatiion

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am new to Xen and want to understand its implementation for the X86-based
> systems.
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> Can anyone tell me how to proceed.

There's some useful reading here, starting from the original Xen paper: 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/architecture.html

For in depth undestanding, I'd recommend "Xen and the Art of Virtualization" 
(the original Xen paper, describing the Xen 1.x architecture) and "Safe 
Hardware Access with the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor" (describing the back / 
front IO model now used).  If you want to understand live migration 
then "Live Migration of Virtual Machines" is also worth a read.

Some of the overviews / presentations could be useful for getting a summary.  
There are also some summaries of how bits of Xen work in various articles 
over the web (Google is your friend) and in the mailing list archives.

You can also ask questions about implementation on this mailing list.

Hope that helps,

Cheers,
Mark


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