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3 | 3 | All terms and acronyms. |
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5 | | -* dom0 : "Domain 0", or "control domain". The initial domain in Xen and XCP-ng, which has direct access to hardware and manages other virtual machines. |
6 | | -* HVM : Hardware Virtual Machine |
7 | | -* PBD : Physical Block Device |
8 | | -* PIF : Physical Interface |
9 | | -* PV : ParaVirtualization |
10 | | -* SR : Storage Repository |
11 | | -* VBD : Virtual Block Device |
12 | | -* VDI : Virtual Disk Image |
13 | | -* VM : Virtual Machine |
14 | | -* XCP-ng : XCP New Generation |
15 | | -* XCP : Xen Cloud Platform |
| 5 | +* CoW: [Copy-on-write](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write) |
| 6 | +* Dom0: Abbreviation for "[domain 0](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Dom0)" |
| 7 | +* DomU: Abbreviation for "[unprivileged domain](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/DomU)" (no access to the hardware) |
| 8 | +* DRBD: [Distributed Replicated Block Device](/xostor/#drdb) |
| 9 | +* HVM: [Hardware Virtual Machine](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Understanding_the_Virtualization_Spectrum#Xen_Project_and_Full_Virtualization) |
| 10 | +* LUN: [Logical Unit Number](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_unit_number) |
| 11 | +* LVM: [Logical Volume Manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Volume_Manager_(Linux)) ([manpage]([](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html#DESCRIPTION))) |
| 12 | +* NBD: [Network Block Device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device) ([official doc](https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/master/doc/proto.md)) |
| 13 | +* PBD: [Physical Block Device](/storage/#-how-to-modify-an-existing-sr-connection) |
| 14 | +* PIF: [Physical Interface](/project/architecture/#pifs) |
| 15 | +* PV: [Para-Virtualization](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Paravirtualization_(PV)) |
| 16 | +* RPU: [Rolling Pool Update](/management/updates/#from-xen-orchestra) |
| 17 | +* SMAPI: [Storage Manager API](https://github.com/xapi-project/xapi-storage) |
| 18 | +* SR: [Storage Repository](/storage/) |
| 19 | +* VBD: [Virtual Block Device](https://docs.kernel.org/block/ublk.html) |
| 20 | +* VDI: Oracle's _VirtualBox Disk Image_ format |
| 21 | +* VG: [LVM's Volume Group](https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/lvm.8.html#DESCRIPTION) |
| 22 | +* VHD: [_Virtual Hard Disk_ file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHD_(file_format)) ([specification](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23850)) |
| 23 | +* VMDK: [_Virtual Machine Disk_ file format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMDK) ([specification](https://github.com/libyal/libvmdk/blob/main/documentation/VMWare%20Virtual%20Disk%20Format%20(VMDK).asciidoc)) |
| 24 | +* VM: [Virtual Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine) |
| 25 | +* XAPI: [Xen Project Management API](/management/manage-at-scale/xo-api/) |
| 26 | +* XCP-ng: [XCP New Generation](https://xcp-ng.org/) |
| 27 | +* XCP: [Xen Cloud Platform](https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/XCP_Overview) (legacy Citrix project) |
| 28 | +* XOA: [Xen Orchestra Appliance](/management/manage-at-scale/xo-web-ui/) |
| 29 | +* XOSTOR: [Hyper-convergence solution based on DRBD](/xostor/) |
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