Chapter 13. XEN AND WINDOWS
In the last chapter we described Xen's hardware virtualization support and how to use it. Now that we have Xen operating with hardware virtualization, we can run unmodified operating systems, including Windows, that 800-pound gorilla of the computing world.
Why Run Windows Under Xen?
Now, why exactly would you want to do this terrible thing? We could say, "because you can," and that's reason enough to do many things. But it might not be entirely satisfying—it sounds like a lot of work, after all.
Fortunately, reasons abound. Probably the best of these is the software—especially the server software, considering that Xen's ...
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