Xen : virtualization software

In my previous blog post I was talked about Virtualization.

Now I am writting about XEN , It is software that runs on a host operating system and allows one to run several guest operating systems on top of the host on the same computer hardware at the same time. Xen Software which enabling every server to support multiple virtual servers. It is the fastest and most secure virtualization software.

In Xen virtualization, a thin software layer known as the Xen hypervisor ( open source technology, developed collaboratively by the world’s best engineers at over 20 of the most innovative data center solution vendors, including Intel, AMD, Cisco, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and of course, XenSource ) is inserted between the server’s hardware and the operating system.

This provides an abstraction layer that allows each physical server to run one or more “virtual servers,” effectively decoupling the operating system and its applications from the underlying physical server.

In CentOS-5 Its In build

http://www.centos.org/
Some useful Link here
http://www.xensource.com/download/
http://www.xensource.com/media/xen/player.html
http://bits.xensource.com/Xen/docs/user.pdf
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8540
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenIntro

Comments

Unknown said…
Dear Mr. Kumar,

Your "Open Hearts" header presents a bit of a problem for us as we hold the international trademark for "Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors." We ask you, kindly, to please remove this statement from your blog. If you have any questions, please contact us at im@umcom.org. --The United Methodist Church.
3:50 PM, September 10, 2007
Prabhat Kumar said…
hi,

I reshuffled this and made it to “Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open Doors... Open Source"

Hope this will not create any problem.
more detail at http://adminlinux.blogspot.com/2007/09/trademark-problem.html
2:13 AM, September 15, 2007
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