Virtual Machine Monitor

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Virtual Machine Monitor

The virtual machine monitor (VMM) runs between the server hardware and the SUSE Linux operating system kernel. When the computer boots, the VMM loads first and then starts the VM Server in privileged mode, which means that the VM Server has the ability to create and control virtual machines and has direct access to the computer hardware. The VM Server is configured with native device drivers that match the actual devices in the computer. For example, if the computer has a physcial e1000 network card, the VM Server is configured to load and run the SUSE Linux device driver for the e1000.

• Virtual machine monitor (VMM) and hypervisor refer to the software layer developed and maintained by the Xen open source community that provides VM Server functionality.