Bug 548168

Summary:	add overview of para-virt vs full-virt vs full-virt+para-virt-drivers
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component:	doc-Virtualization_Guide	Assignee:	Scott Radvan <sradvan>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.4	CC:	rlandman, tao
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Description Jeff Bastian 2009-12-16 20:08:08 UTC

Description of problem:
The Virtualization Guide should have a short overview of Para-Virtualization, Full-Virtualization, and Full-Virtualization with Para-Virt-Drivers at the beginning of the guide.  It should give a short description of how they work and the up- and down-sides of each method.

All of the information is in the guide, but it's spread out in a number of chapters and the glossary.  There should be something like
  Section 1: Overview of Virtualization Methods

The "Para-virtualized Windows Drivers Guide" already has something very similar:
  https://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Para-Virtualized_Windows_Drivers/chap-Para-virtualized_Windows_Drivers_Guide-Overview.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Virtualization Guide Published Sep 2, 2009

Comment 4 Christopher Curran 2010-08-02 06:53:23 UTC

Added in build 50.

http://documentation-stage.bne.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-About_this_book.html

Comment 12 Michael Doyle 2010-12-14 23:17:31 UTC

Thanks Jeff,

Verified in Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Virtualization-5-en-US-5.6-13.