Re: [Xen-users] bootable disk of xen on xen.org

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:59:30PM -0500, John Smith wrote:
>    I did google it and it says Xen is a type 1.
>    [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
> 
>    Please send me the link that says Xen is a type 2.
> 
>    On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Itamar Reis Peixoto
>    <[2]itamar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:19 AM, John Smith <[3]slash5bmw@xxxxxxxxx>
>      wrote:
>      > What are you talking about?
>      >
>      > I want to run Type 1, bare metal virtualization. Google it.
>      >
>      > I think you are the one that does not understand the different types
>      of
>      > virtualization.  if you don't have a useful reply, please don't reply.
>      > Useless replies waste my time and everyone elses time.
>      >
>      if you google you will see, xen is not type 1
> 
>      KVM is type 1
> 

Wrong. 

Xen is type 1 baremetal hypervisor, while KVM is type 2 hosted hypervisor.

See: http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/HypervisorTypeComparison.pdf

(link from: http://www.xen.org/products/xenhyp.html)

-- Pasi


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