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What is Xen's role in paravirtualization?
The correct answer is B. Requires modified guest operating systems for improved performance. In paravirtualization, the guest operating system is aware that it is running in a virtualized environment and is modified to interact efficiently with the hypervisor. According to Xen documentation, Xen was originally designed as a paravirtualization-focused hypervisor…
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- ANone of the above
- BRequires modified guest operating systems for improved performance
- CIt only supports fully virtualized guests
- DIt fully virtualizes hardware
How the community answered
(33 responses)- A9% (3)
- B73% (24)
- C3% (1)
- D15% (5)
Explanation
In paravirtualization, the guest operating system is aware that it is running in a virtualized environment and is modified to interact efficiently with the hypervisor. According to Xen documentation, Xen was originally designed as a paravirtualization-focused hypervisor, requiring modified guest operating systems to achieve better performance. These modifications allow the guest OS to replace sensitive hardware instructions with hypercalls, reducing the overhead associated with hardware emulation. This results in improved CPU, memory, and I/O performance compared to early full virtualization techniques. Xen does support fully virtualized (HVM) guests, but that is not its role in paravirtualization.
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