From: Etienne Martineau <etmartin@cisco.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Hypervisor architecture?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 12:25:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273001107.27500.5.camel@etienne-desktop> (raw)
Is there any documents around that describe the 'internal' architecture
of the Hypervisor?
So far my understanding is such that the Hypervisor is a 'strip-down'
Linux 2.6.(12/13) + lot's of customization specific to Xen.
Because there is so much documentation around for the Linux kernel I
think it would be _nice_ to have a 'conceptual mapping' between the
Hypervisor and the Linux kernel....
For example:
-Under Linux, processes are described by 'struct task_struct'
-Under Hypervisor, VMs are described by 'struct domain'
What is common?
What is different?
For those who are already familiar with the Linux kernel there would be
a net advantage when trying to 'pickup' on how things are done within
the hypervisor
-Etienne
next reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 19:25 Etienne Martineau [this message]
2010-05-04 20:33 ` Hypervisor architecture? Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-05-04 23:36 ` Etienne Martineau
2010-05-04 23:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-05-04 23:20 ` TSFH
2010-05-07 15:05 ` George Dunlap
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