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- | Comparison - http://www.xensource.com/products/ | + | http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html |
- | Support - http:// | + | ===== Xen Overview ===== |
- | Getting Started User Guide - http://www.xensource.com/ | + | http://wiki.xensource.com/ |
- | Wiki - http:// | + | Xen can run two types of Virtual Machines: |
- | Mail Lists - http:// | + | * Paravirtualized |
+ | * No special hardware support required | ||
+ | * Requires VM be modified | ||
+ | * Generally only for Linux VMs | ||
+ | * Offers top performance | ||
+ | * HVM fully virtualized | ||
+ | * Requires hardware support by the mainboard, BIOS and CPU | ||
+ | * Provides full virtualization of hardware including the BIOS | ||
- | [[XenServer]] - http://www.citrix.com/ | + | Generic Xen is managed using the " |
- | 2 sockets | + | ===== Xen Cloud Platform ===== |
- | 4GB RAM | + | |
- | Manage single server at a time | + | |
- | Free | + | |
- | **CPU Support** | + | http:// |
+ | XCP is a free open-source bare-metal type 1 hypervisor originally based on XenServer. | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | XCP is managed using " | ||
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+ | ===== XenServer ===== | ||
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+ | http:// | ||
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+ | [[virtualization: | ||
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+ | XenServer is managed via a Windows application, | ||
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+ | ===== Required CPU Support ===== | ||
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+ | Xen requires hardware | ||
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