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A DomU is the counterpart to [[Dom0]]; it is an unprivileged [[domain]] with (by default) no access to the hardware. It must run a [[FrontendDriver]] for multiplexed hardware it wishes to share with other domains. A DomU is started by xend in Dom0, which the user accesses with the xm command-line tool. The kernel for a DomU comes from Dom0's filesystem, not from the filesystem exported to the DomU.
A DomU is the counterpart to [[Dom0]]; it is an unprivileged [[domain]] with (by default) no access to the hardware. It must run a [[FrontendDriver]] for multiplexed hardware it wishes to share with other domains. A DomU is started by running
<pre>
xl create
</pre>
in Dom0. The kernel for a DomU comes from Dom0's filesystem, not from the filesystem exported to the DomU.


== Also see ==
== Also see ==

Revision as of 13:58, 30 July 2012


A DomU is the counterpart to Dom0; it is an unprivileged domain with (by default) no access to the hardware. It must run a FrontendDriver for multiplexed hardware it wishes to share with other domains. A DomU is started by running

xl create

in Dom0. The kernel for a DomU comes from Dom0's filesystem, not from the filesystem exported to the DomU.

Also see