Xen was originally developed in 2003 at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and users now have the choices of both commercial and free versions of the Xen hypervisor. The commercial versions are built on top of the open-source version with additional enterprise features. In this book Chaganti explores and uses the open-source version of Xen.
Xen is an open-source paravirtualization technology that provides a platform for running multiple operating systems on one physical hardware resource, while providing close to native performance. Xen supports several operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and NetBSD. It enables the user to easily test, deploy and run their software and services on multiple operating systems with resource isolation and great performance. It is also a terrific way to consolidate servers, save hardware and maintenance costs, and minimize downtime. Xen is one of the most popular open source projects in the world and vendors like IBM, Sun, HP, RedHat and Novell are working on integrating Xen into their Linux servers.
This concise handbook which hosts Fedora Core as its host operating System is ideal for professionals who want a user-friendly reference beside them while they get working with Xen and virtualization. Its easy-to-navigate content offers bite-sized walkthroughs for a wide variety of common virtualization tasks using Xen.
Each chapter is a collection of practical tasks that demonstrate how to achieve common virtualization tasks. Users then learn how it works so that they can apply this knowledge to their Xen installation and environment. This book is for Linux administrators who want to use Xen virtualization for development, testing, virtual hosting, or operating systems training.
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