Xen.org Open Source Projects and Solutions

The Xen.org hosts a variety of open source solutions for the virtualization industry. From servers to client devices, Xen.org ensures that the open source community continues to be a leader in the virtualization revolution. Xen projects are normally is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL2).

Project Governance

Projects hosted on Xen.org follow the governance model as laid out in the Governance section. The project governance model is new and not all projects are fully implementing the model at this stage.

Mature Projects and Solutions

Xen Hypervisor

The Xen.org community is most commonly known for the leading industry hypervisor - Xen Hypervisor. With Xen virtualization, a thin software layer known as the Xen hypervisor is inserted between the server's hardware and the operating system. This provides an abstraction layer that allows each physical server to run one or more "virtual servers", effectively decoupling the operating system and its applications from the underlying physical server.

The Xen hypervisor is a unique open source technology, developed collaboratively by the Xen community and engineers at over 50 of the most innovative data center solution vendors, including AMD, Cisco, Dell, Fujistu, HP, IBM, Intel, Mellanox, Network Appliance, Novell, Red Hat, Samsung, SGI, Sun, Unisys, Veritas, Voltaire, and Citrix.

Home Page
USERS: Download latest release here
DEVELOPERS: Source browser and Mercurial Repository

Xen Cloud Platform

The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform, delivering the Xen Hypervisor with support for a range of guest operating systems including Windows® and Linux® network and storage support, management tools in a single, tested installable image.

Home Page
USERS: Download latest release here
DEVELOPERS: Download Source code here

Projects under Development

Xen ARM Project

In recent months, Xen.org has seen an increased interest in Xen for the ARM architecture to augment the continuing work of Samsung on the Xen ARM Project. The project, led by Samsung, is responsible for the direct port of the Xen hypervisor to the ARM processor. To help channel increased interest in Xen for the ARM architecture, Xen.org is working with Samsung and others on an initiative within the Xen ARM Project to extend the scope of the project. We want to ensure that Xen ARM can support future ARM based clients and servers, that ARM support is merged into mainline Xen by 2012 and build a sustainable and diverse community around the project.

More information: see Xen ARM Portal.