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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization Guide
Virtualization Documentation

Virtualization Guide

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization Guide Virtualization Documentation Edition 5.8
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The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Guide contains information on installation, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting virtualization technologies included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Preface ix 1. About this book .............................................................................................................. ix 2. DocumentConventions ................................................................................................... ix 2.1. Typographic Conventions ..................................................................................... ix 2.2. Pull-quote Conventions ........................................................................................ xi 2.3. Notes and Warnings............................................................................................ xi 3. We need your feedback ................................................................................................. xii 3.1. Technical review requests .................................................................................... xii 4. What is Virtualization?................................................................................................... xiii 5. Types of Virtualization ................................................................................................... xiii 5.1. Full Virtualization ................................................................................................ xiii 5.2. Para-Virtualization.............................................................................................. xiii 5.3. Para-virtualized drivers ....................................................................................... xiii 6. How CIOs should think about virtualization ..................................................................... xiii I. Requirements and Limitations for Virtualization with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 1. System requirements2. Xen restrictions and support 3. KVM restrictions and support 4. Hyper-V restrictions and support 5. Virtualization limitations 5.1. General limitations for virtualization ..................................................................... 5.2. KVM limitations .................................................................................................. 5.3. Xen limitations...