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Usage scenarios for Xen include:
- Server Consolidation.
- Move multiple servers onto a single
physical host with performance and fault isolation provided at the
virtual machine boundaries.
- Hardware Independence.
- Allow legacy applications and operating
systems to exploit new hardware.
- Multiple OS configurations.
- Run multiple operating systems
simultaneously, for development or testing purposes.
- Kernel Development.
- Test and debug kernel modifications in a
sand-boxed virtual machine -- no need for a separate test machine.
- Cluster Computing.
- Management at VM granularity provides more
flexibility than separately managing each physical host, but better
control and isolation than single-system image solutions,
particularly by using live migration for load balancing.
- Hardware support for custom OSes.
- Allow development of new
OSes while benefiting from the wide-ranging hardware support of
existing OSes such as Linux.
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