Chapter 4. STORAGE WITH XEN
Throughout this book, so far, we've talked about Xen mostly as an integrated whole, a complete virtualization solution, to use marketing's word. The reality is a bit more complex than that. Xen itself is only one component of a platform that aims to free users from having to work with real hardware. The Xen hypervisor virtualizes a processor (along with several other basic components, as outlined in Chapter 2), but it relies on several underlying technologies to provide seamless abstractions of the resources a computer needs. This distinction is clearest in the realm of storage, where Xen has to work closely with a virtualized ...
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