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Xen is a virtual machine monitor which supports running multiple
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guests operating systems on a single machine. Guest OSes (also
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called "domains") require a modified kernel which supports Xen
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hypercalls in replacement to access to the physical hardware. At
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boot, the xen kernel is loaded along with the guest kernel for the
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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 4.2 Xen4 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 last release to support python-based tools (xm), rather
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than the newer xl. It remains in pkgsrc as a courtesy to those who
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have not yet migrated.
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This version no longer receives security updates.
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