Download or read book Professional Xen Virtualization written by William Von Hagen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market_Desc: · Primary Audience - Administrators seeking to optimize use of enterprise hardware, create virtual environments geared toward specific tasks, and testing purposes· Secondary Audience - Developers wanting to test software on various platforms and hardware configurations without risking their development hardware and configuration Special Features: · Virtualization is rapidly becoming an essential technology for both developer and administrator tasks· XEN Virtualization is becoming the standard virtualization platform for the Linux platform and is shipping with all of the major distributions· Professional XEN Virtualization covers every aspect of virtualization on the Linux platform About The Book: The book is organized linearly, providing a complete foundation in virtualization, Xen, and competing approaches to virtualization before proceeding to details discussions of installing, configuring, and using Xen. It provides detailed examples of Xen configuration files, system configuration files, and system-level configuration information that will make it easy for system administrators to install, use, and optimize virtual machines in the enterprise. This book also furnishes basic information that helps system administrators adopt Xen and justify its selection.