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performance advantages of
paravirtualization. For example, the Xen
Windows GPLPV project provides a kit of
paravirtualization-aware
device drivers, that...
- can run
paravirtualized guests ("PV guests" in Xen terminology) even on CPUs
without any
explicit support for virtualization.
Paravirtualization avoids...
-
Virtual Iron
discussed paravirtualization and
native virtualization in its blog:
Virtual Iron has
decided against paravirtualization in
favor of "native...
-
comparison between full
virtualization and
paravirtualization for the ESX
Server shows that in some
cases paravirtualization is much faster. When
using the advanced...
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machine I/O
instructions that the
hypervisor simulates. This is
called paravirtualization in Xen, a "hypercall" in
Parallels Workstation, and a "DIAGNOSE code"...
-
rarely offer performance advantages over
software virtualization. In
paravirtualization, the
virtual machine does not
necessarily simulate hardware, but instead...
-
paravirtualization approaches (e.g. Xen) with OS-level
virtualization ^
Requires patches/recompiling. ^
Exceptional for lightweight,
paravirtualized,...
-
PowerPC applications.
VMware Fusion,
which uses a
combination of
paravirtualization and
hardware virtualization made
possible by the Mac
transition to...
- binaries.
Kernels beginning with 2.6.32 may
include inbuilt Hyper-V
paravirtualization support which improves the
performance of
virtual Linux guest systems...
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known to work with
certain limitations. Additionally, KVM
provides paravirtualization support for Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Plan 9 and
Windows guests...
