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Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 hardware (runs only on
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i686-class CPUs), which supports running multiple guests operating
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systems on a single machine. Guest OSes (also called "domains")
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require a modified kernel which supports Xen hypercalls in replacement
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to access to the physical hardware. At boot, the xen kernel is loaded
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(via grub) along with the guest kernel for the first domain (called
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domain0). domain0 has privileges to access the physical hardware (PCI
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and ISA devices), administrate other domains and provide virtual
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devices (disks and network) to other domains.
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This package contains the 3.1 Xen3 kernel itself. PCI passthrough is
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supported. Both non-PAE and PAE versions of xen are provided for
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i386; one must use XEN3_DOM[0U] and XEN3PAE_DOM[0U] kernels, respectively.
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3.1 is no longer maintained upstream.
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