The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor

List of Figures

1.1   An instruction stream in a VM

1.2   System calls in native and paravirtualized systems

1.3   Ring usage in native and paravirtualized systems

1.4   Ring usage in x86-64 native and paravirtualized systems

1.5   The path of a packet sent from an unprivileged guest through the system

1.6   A simple Xen configuration

1.7   A Xen configuration showing driver isolation and an unmodified guest OS

1.8   A single node in a clustered Xen environment

2.1   The lifecycle of a real machine

2.2   The lifecycle of a virtual machine

3.1   The hierarchy of structures used for the shared info page

4.1   The structure of an I/O ring

5.1   The three layers of Xen memory

5.2   Memory layout on x86 systems

6.1   The composition of a split device ...