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Re: [Xen-users] Advantages in using Xen for VPS platform

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 05:39:55PM +0800, howard chen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:40:35PM +0800, howard chen wrote:
> >
> > Also Xen is a type 1 baremetal hypervisor, providing better security and 
> > isolation
> > than KVM.
> >
> > KVM is a type 2 hosted hypervisor (loadable kernel module for Linux).
> >
> 
> Seems KVM is also type1, according to wikipedia:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor
>

Well KVM is clearly a loadable module/driver you load on top of Linux kernel,
it doesn't run on baremetal by itself.

-- Pasi


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