xen

The Xen Project Hypervisor is a virtualisation technology defined as a type-1 hypervisor, which allows multiple virtual machines, known as domains, to run concurrently with the host on the physical machine. On a typical type-2 hypervisor, the virtual machines run as applications on top of the host. NixOS runs as the privileged Domain 0, and can paravirtualise or fully virtualise Unprivileged Domains.

Use with the qemu_xen package.

Includes:

• xen.efi: The Xen Project's EFI binary, available on the boot output of this package.
• seabios: Support for the SeaBIOS boot firmware on HVM domains.
• ovmf: Support for the OVMF UEFI boot firmware on HVM domains.
• ipxe: Support for the iPXE boot firmware on HVM domains.