What is paravirt_ops? paravirt_ops (pv-ops for short) is a piece of Linux kernel infrastructure to allow it to run paravirtualized on a hypervisor. It currently supports VMWare's VMI, Rusty's lguest, and most interestingly, Xen. The infrastructure allows you to compile a single kernel binary which will either boot native on bare hardware (or in hvm mode under Xen), or boot fully paravirtualized in