Chapter 8. BEYOND LINUX: USING XEN WITH OTHER UNIX-LIKE OSS
One major benefit of paravirtualization which we've thus far ignored is the ability to run multiple operating systems on a single paravirtualized physical machine. Although Linux is the most popular OS to run under Xen, it's not the only option available. Several other Unix-like OSs can run as a dom0, and rather more have been modified to run as paravirtualized domUs.
Apart from Linux, only Solaris and NetBSD are capable of functioning as a dom0 with current versions of Xen. Some work has been done with the other BSDs and with Plan9, but these OSs either can only work as a domU or can only ...
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