Paravirtualization dramatically increases the performance of your virtual machines. A paravirtualized system gives you access to up to 95% of your virtual machine’s computing power by forcing the operating system and hypervisor to work together more efficiently. It does this by opening additional channels of communication between the Xen and KVM hypervisors in SUSE Linux Enterprise and the unmodified guest operating systems running in a virtual environment, thus accelerating network and storage input/output and improving overall efficiency. The paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack deliver the performance benefits of paravirtualization, with the wider availability of full virtualization. Improved performance of virtualized systems. Full enterprise support. Extended life of legacy & custom applications. Increased flexibility & control. Comprehensive assortment of compatible drivers.

The paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack extend the useful life of your legacy and custom applications that are only supported on older operating systems. SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack contains 32-bit and 64-bit paravirtualized disk, network and balloon drivers for a wide variety of platforms. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack gives you greater flexibility and control over Windows guest OSs in both Xen and KVM-based host environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server includes commercial support for both Xen and KVM hypervisor technologies. And now you can run unmodified Windows applications with near native performance in virtual environments created with Xen or KVM. The same paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack support both Xen and KVM.

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack — Improve The Performance

The paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack make it easy to achieve the level of performance you need, with support for a broad range of software and hardware. The paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack make it easy to get the performance you need, with support for a broad range of software and hardware. Paravirtualization is a way of increasing the performance of virtualized systems. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack is a fee-based bundle of paravirtualized disk, network and balloon drivers. They let you run fully-virtualized Windows workloads on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with near-native performance. The drivers do this by opening additional channels of communication between the Xen and KVM hypervisors in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and the unmodified guest operating systems running in a virtual environment. This accelerates network and storage input/output and improves overall efficiency.

How The Paravirtualized Drivers Deliver Higher Performance

Paravirtualization typically delivers higher performance than full virtualization because the operating system and hypervisor work together more efficiently without the overhead imposed by the emulation of the entire system’s resources. However, paravirtualization requires that guest operating systems be modified to recognize the hypervisor, and while more and more operating systems today are being modified to recognize Xen and KVM hypervisors, only a subset of the major operating platforms have been modified. Although fully virtualized workloads run slower than their equivalent paravirtualized ones, full virtualization does not require that the guest operating system be modified. Therefore, more workloads and guest operating systems today can be fully virtualized than can be paravirtualized. The paravirtualized drivers in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack deliver the performance benefits of paravirtualization, with the wider availability of full virtualization.

Get Greater Flexibility And Control

Easily migrate your Windows virtual machines from Xen to KVM hosts. To maximize resource utilization or improve performance, you may want to move your Windows guests from a Xen to KVM hosted environment, or vice versa. Our latest Driver Pack includes support for tools like virt-v2v to make migrating Windows guests quick and easy. Administer your Windows guests from your virtualization host. Included in the Driver Pack is a new Windows guest agent that facilitates communication between guest and KVM host environments. Now you can save time by initiating certain tasks from your host environment, without having to connect directly into your Windows virtual machines. In addition to maintenance and updates, get enterprise quality technical support from SUSE that inherits the support terms and conditions of your underlying SUSE Linux Enterprise Server host operating system.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Virtual Machine Driver Pack
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