SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2 for x86

Package descriptions

xen-tools-ioemu
Xen Virtualization: BIOS and device emulation for unmodified guests

Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of
performance and resource isolation.
This package contains the needed BIOS and device emulation code to
support unmodified guests. (You need virtualization support in hardware
to make use of this.)
Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to
present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each
running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning
of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating
systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be
isolated from one another: It is not acceptable for the execution of
one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is
particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually
untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of
different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular
applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by
virtualization should be small.
Xen uses a technique called paravirtualization: The guest OS is
modified, mainly to enhance performance.
The Xen hypervisor (microkernel) does not provide device drivers for
your hardware (except for CPU and memory). This job is left to the
kernel that's running in domain 0. Thus the domain 0 kernel is
privileged; it has full hardware access. It's started immediately after
Xen starts up. Other domains have no access to the hardware; instead
they use virtual interfaces that are provided by Xen (with the help of
the domain 0 kernel).
Xen does support booting other Operating Systems; ports of NetBSD
(Christian Limpach), FreeBSD (Kip Macy), and Plan 9 (Ron Minnich)
exist. A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of
Xen, but is not available for release due to license restrictions.
In addition to this package you need to install kernel-xen, xen, and
xen-tools to use Xen.

Except for packages subject to a commercial license, the license identified below is the license designated by the open source project.

File list

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           672564 May  6 17:36 /usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           102276 May  6 17:36 /usr/lib/xen/bin/xc_kexec
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root           223856 May  6 17:35 /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 May  6 17:35 /usr/share/xen
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 May  6 17:35 /usr/share/xen/qemu
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 May  6 17:35 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2239 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/ar
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2078 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/common
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2576 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/da
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2467 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/de
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2542 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/de-ch
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2581 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/en-gb
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              609 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/en-us
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2236 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/es
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1121 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/et
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2685 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fi
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              907 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fo
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2588 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fr
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2876 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fr-be
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              934 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fr-ca
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2471 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/fr-ch
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2699 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/hr
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1913 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/hu
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             3075 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/is
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2462 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/it
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2140 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/ja
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1096 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/lt
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2840 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/lv
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2366 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/mk
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              296 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/modifiers
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1107 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/nl
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2209 May  6 17:29 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/nl-be
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2576 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/no
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2672 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/pl
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2450 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/pt
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1354 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/pt-br
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2554 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/ru
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2293 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/sl
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1013 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/sv
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             3123 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/th
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             2649 Jan 16 21:19 /usr/share/xen/qemu/keymaps/tr

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