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AW: Very basic question
- To: Leroy Tennison <leroy.tennison@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Klaus Darilion <klaus.darilion@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:06:14 +0000
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- Thread-topic: Very basic question
Hi Leroy!
IIRC xen does not require a Linux distribution - that is only one possibility,
and probably the easiest possibility to use xen. You need a boot loader to load
xen and then you have to instruct xen what to do, ie. xen manages VMs so
somehow you have to tell xen to start a VM. And these VMs have to exist some
where (ie. disk images on some hard disk) and you need to manage the hardware
of the server (network cards, hard disk, ...) as this is not done by xen. So,
using a Linux VM that is privileged (the dom0) is the easiest way to use xen.
But there are other possibilities too.
Regards
Klaus
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Von: Xen-users <xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von Leroy
Tennison
Gesendet: Sonntag, 30. August 2026 04:55
An: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Very basic question
I want to install xen and began reading the beginner's docunmentation. If xen
is (or can be) a type 1 hypervisor, why do the instructions require installing
a Linux distribution such as Debian and then installing the xen-system-amd64
package? Is xen running under the distribution? If so, how is it different
than qemu/libvirt/kvm? If it isn't, how does xen relate to the distribution
used to install it? Thanks for any and all explanation.
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