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Xen is a hypervisor which supports running multiple guest operating
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systems on a single machine. Guest OSes (also called "domains")
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can be either paravirtualised (i.e. make hypercalls in order to
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access hardware), run in HVM (Hardware Virtualisation Mode) where
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they will be presented with virtual devices, or a combination where
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they use hypercalls to access hardware but manage memory themselves.
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At boot, the xen kernel is loaded along with the guest kernel for
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the first domain (called domain0). domain0 has privileges to access
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the physical hardware (PCI and ISA devices), administrate other
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domains and provide virtual devices (disks and network) to other
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domains.
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This package contains the 4.15 Xen kernel itself. PCI passthrough is
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not supported. PAE is mandatory; on i386 one must use XEN3PAE_DOM[0U].
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This is the recommended Xen version in pkgsrc.
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