Project HXEN: Hosted XenStephen Spector

Xen.org Community Manager

XEN Hypervisor

Project HXEN – Type 2 VMM

Type 1 Virtual Machine Manager* Security & Isolation* Pass-through

Operating System

Type 2 Virtual Machine Manager* Existing Device Drivers* Usability – “Application View”

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HXEN – Module in OS

HXEN Architecture

HXEN.sys Kernel ModuleOperatingSystem

Application

Ioemu.exe

Virtual Machines

(Video, Net, Keyboard, Mouse, Disk)

HXEN Demo

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HXEN Project Links

• Project Code

• Object Code -http://www.xen.org/download/HostedXen/snapshots/kxen-preview-090323-windows.zip

• Source Code -http://www.xen.org/download/HostedXen/snapshots/kxen-preview-090323-src.tar.bz2

• Project Support/Discussion

• xen-devel@lists.xensource.com mailing list

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