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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 provides guest paravirtualized
drivers in the form of Linux integration components for SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server 10, both 32- and 64-bit editions. These integration components enable
Xen-enabled Linux to take advantage of the VSP/VSC architecture and provide
improved performance.
At the time of this writing, no Microsoft supplied Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris
paravirtualized drivers were available.
Oracle Solaris
Table 4.7 summarizes the certification for Solaris as an x86 guest running on a
supported Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 host.
Table 4.7
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 Support for Oracle Solaris
Microsoft Windows Server
2008 Hyper-V Version
Guest OS
Certified
Tested
R2
Solaris 10 10/09
No
Yes
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) portfolio of products consists of
two components: the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV-H)
and the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers (RHEV-M Server).
The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor is based on Kernel-based
Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization technology. It can be deployed with Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and later, installed as a hypervisor host, and man-
aged through RHEV-M Server. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
(RHEV-M) product provides management of virtual machines and their associated
infrastructure (e.g., images, network and storage connections).
The KVM project represents the most recent generation of open-source virtual-
ization. KVM is implemented as a loadable kernel module that converts the Linux
kernel into a bare metal hypervisor. Because KVM was designed after the advent
of hardware-assisted virtualization, it did not have to implement features that
were provided by hardware. Instead, KVM depends on Intel VT-X or AMD-V en-
abled CPUs and uses those features to virtualize the CPU. It can run on either 32-
or 64-bit hosts. KVM supports 32-bit virtual machines on 64-bit hosts; however,
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