Chapter 10. Other Xen Devices
The last few chapters have described some of the most important types of paravirtualized devices available to Xen guests. There are quite a few others available, however. Every guest is likely to want to implement support for the console and block devices, and most will want to include support for the network device. Some, however, will also want to add support for USB devices, virtual framebuffers, and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). Xen provides all of these, assuming the guest in Domain 0 has the requisite drivers and the hardware is physically present.
If you need to support a device that does not have an existing virtual device type, you may want to add your own. The end of this chapter contains a number ...
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