Figure 3.2 Summary
When running through the creation of a VM Guest, the following steps have to be ac-
complished:
1 Select if the VM Guest should run as full or paravirtualized guest.
2 Each virtual machine must have a unique name. The name entered on this page
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Virtualization with Xen
If your computer supports hardware-assisted virtualization, you can create a vir-
tual machine that runs in fully virtual mode. If you are installing an operating
system that is modified for virtualization, you can create a virtual machine that
runs in paravirtual mode. For more information about virtualization modes, see
Section 1.2, "Understanding Virtualization Modes" (page 5).
is used to create and name the virtual machine's configuration file. The configu-
ration file contains parameters that define the virtual machine and is saved to the
/etc/xen/vm/ directory.