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Glossary

All terms and acrocyms.

  • dom0 - "Domain 0", or "control domain" - The initial domain in Xen and XCP-ng, which has direct access to hardware and manages other virtual machines.
  • HVM - Hardware Virtual Machine
  • PV - ParaVirtualization
  • PBD - Physical Block Device
  • PIF - Physical Interface
  • SR - Storage Repository
  • VBD - Virtual Block Device
  • VDI - Virtual Disk Image
  • VM - Virtual Machine
  • XCP - Xen Cloud Platform
  • XCP-ng - XCP New Generation