Xen Directions HXEN

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HXEN Slides for Xen Directions 2009 at LinuxTAG on June 27, 2009 in Berlin, Germany

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Project HXEN: Hosted Xen
Stephen Spector
Xen.org Community Manager

Project HXEN – Type 2 VMM

Operating System
Type 1 Virtual Machine Manager
* Security & Isolation
* Pass-through

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XEN Hypervisor

HXEN – Module in OS

Type 2 Virtual Machine Manager
* Existing Device Drivers
* Usability – “Application View”

HXEN Architecture

Virtual
Machines

(Video, Net, Keyboard, Mouse, Disk)

Ioemu.exe
Application

Operating
HXEN.sys Kernel Module
System

HXEN Demo

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