Question about paravirtualisation support and about linux-virtual

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 10/18/2010 09:10 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>> Thank you for your answer, however why Xen isn't mentioned then? There
>> is not Xen virtualisation only.
>>
>> There are KMS, VirtualBox, VMware, and others too.
>>
>> How do you know it is only for Xen?

It's not /only/ for Xen, but if the hypervisor software vendor provides
kernels. That Kernel needs to be installed on the guest.  The VMWare
modifications should enable paravirtualisation on the guest, you would
then just need to turn it on inside of the VMWare settings.