QuestionQ23

Full Virtualization

Which of the following guest-system types are supported by Xen?

Choose two
  • A Foreign architecture guests (FA)
  • B Paravirtualized guests (PV)
  • C Emulated guests (EMU)
  • D Container virtualized guests (CVM)
  • E Fully virtualized guests (HVM)
Explanation

Xen supports PV guests, which use a Xen-aware paravirtualized interface, and HVM guests, which are fully virtualized using hardware-virtualization extensions. Xen’s configuration documentation identifies pv and hvm as guest types, with HVM defined as a fully virtualized computer.

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