Bicycle User Manual

Xen Architecture – Simple View
Hardware
Hypervisor
Linux
Dom0
Pd
Linux
Dom1
Vd
Netware
Dom2
Vd
Pd = Physical Device Driver
Vd = Virtual Device Driver
Dom0 is the management
domain for Xen guests
•
controls compute resources
dynamically
(e.g. memory, CPU, I/O)
•
provides interfaces to the
physical server.
•
provides administration tools
and interfaces