The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor

Footnotes

Chapter 1

[1] Published in Communications of the ACM.

[2] Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was later renamed Digital, then was bought by HP, which later merged with Compaq.

[3] Note that Linux uses the MS-DOS system call convention, and so passes parameters in registers.

[4] Technically, VT-x for x86. Intel also added similar instructions to Itanium (IA64), known as VT-i.

[5] In a high-availability environment, it is possible to add redundancy to these, for example, by using automatic fail-over for the firewall and backup NFS servers connected to the same SAN.

Chapter 2

[1] Some microkernel operating systems replace this with a message passing mechanism; however, the messages tend to be sent using a mechanism similar to that described ...