Preface

This book aims to serve as a guide to the Xen hypervisor. The interface to paravirtualized guests is described in detail, along with some description of the internals of the hypervisor itself.

Any book about an open source project will, by nature, be less detailed than the code of the project that it attempts to describe. Anyone wishing to fully understand the Xen hypervisor will find no better source of authoritative information than the code itself. This book aims to provide a guided tour, indicating features of interest to help visitors find their way around the code. As with many travel books, it is to be hoped that readers will find it an informative read whether or not they visit the code.

Much of the focus of this book is on the ...

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