[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Early testing has shown that Ubuntu, when run as a virtual
guest taking advantage of the new paravirt-ops paravirtualization
interface, delivers as promised: it runs faster and more
efficiently that it would as an unmodified guest. Ubuntu, a Linux
distribution maintained by corporate sponsor Canonical Ltd., is the
first commercially shipping operating system to support the
paravirt_ops standard.“Paravirt_ops is an open interface that was developed by members
of the Linux kernel community, including commercial vendors Red
Hat, VMware, IBM and XenSource…”