On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:50:42PM -0500, Joel Rittvo wrote: > > Could someone please explain (or point me to an explanation of) the > > alternate builds released for the newest test kernel? Specifically: > > > > kernel compiled for Xen guest0 VM operations > > kernel compiled for unprivileged Xen guest VMs > > Xen is a para-virtualisation system for x86. It provides a secure way to run a > lot of copies of Linux at once on a single PC. To get the speed it doesn't > emulate a PC exactly (as vmware tries to) but requires the kernels are > "Xen friendly". > > The Xen guest0 kernel is the kernel that runs all the real devices and supports > the actual hardware. The unpriviledged guests then talk to guest0 via > virtual hardware interfaces. Ok - I'm a bit confused. Does this mean 'guest0' is equivalent to vmware-host-os (i.e I boot off this kernel on the real hardware), and 'guestU' (unpreviledged) is the kernel installed inside the 'vm'? (aka vmware-guest-os) or is it something else? Satish