Xen
An open source hypervisor that runs directly on the hardware and hosts several virtual machines side by side.
In more detail
Xen boots first and starts a privileged guest that manages the others. Older public clouds were built on it, while KVM is the hypervisor built into Linux.
Related terms
- KVM — The virtualisation built into the Linux kernel, which runs virtual machines at close to native speed.
- virtual machine — A complete pretend computer, with its own operating system, running as software on a real computer.
Taught in
- Linux As A Guest: Clones, Clouds And Containers — LPIC-1 Linux Administrator (101-500 and 102-500) Exam Prep