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About the Xen Wiki

This Wiki is the shared workspace for the Xen Open Source community. The community is developing the industry’s only 100% Open Source hypervisor, and relies on contributions from the world’s leading systems developers. Citrix hosts the site on behalf of the community, and views its role in fostering the Open Source development process as critical to the long term success of Xen in the enterprise.

Wiki Contents

Table of Contents

• RecentChanges - See where people are currently working.

• TitleIndex - A complete list of all pages in the wiki.

• WordIndex - Summarizes all titles and concepts in the wiki

Xen Installation

• Xen documentation

• HowTos

• Xen Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Installing Windows on Xen

• Miscellaneous InstallationNotes

• Notes on specific distributions

• XenDebugging - help in figuring out how to sort out problems in xen, and where to report bugs

• HardwareCompatibilityList - Hardware on which xen is known to run well

Translations

• XenTranslation - This wiki in other languages.

Xen Development Guides

• XenArchitecture - Topics on the hypervisor and guest OS architecture and interface.

• DeveloperDiscussion - Supplements the mailing list, may be useful for more permanent information. Includes details of development planning, requirements.

• WhosDoingWhat - Who is working on what.

• XenRoadMap - Development roadmap

• APIChangelog - what's changed in the dom0/domU API/ABI

• CrossCompiling - how to cross-build the hypervisor, kernel and tools

Xen Development

• XenReleaseReqs - Key remaining work items before forking 3.0 testing.

• DebianPackageMaintenance - Debian packaging and documentation.

• XenCim - LGPL'ed open source implementation of a DMTF CIM provider for Xen.

• XenApi - Project to define a standard wire protocol for managing Xen.

• XenARM - the port of Xen to the ARM architecture

• XenPPC - the port of Xen to the PowerPC architecture

• XenTest - defining what it means to say 'Xen works'

• XenBugs - weekly list of open bug issues for anyone looking for problems to fix

• QualityAssuranceTeam

• Document Update Project - Document Update Project Notes

Xen Client Initiative

• General Project Information - Overview of Xen Client Initiative

• Working Group Core Hypervisor - Hypervisor updates for clients

• Working Group Domain 0 - Setup and configuration of Domain 0 for clients

• Working Group VM Services - Standards for service VMs

• Working Group Services Framework - Framework for ISVs

Xen Introspection Project

• Project Information - Overview of Xen Introspection Project

• Meeting Minutes - Notes from Project Meetings

• Project Updates - Ongoing Project Data from Community

Xen Summit

• Open Topics For Discussion

Xen Examples

• Xen Case Studies

• UniversityOfCambridgeXenExample

• XenDemoLaptop

• CoolConfigurations

• XenSourcePublicServersExample

• Xenoppix -- Knoppix customized with Xen. A new book + DVD has been published in Japan called Chou Kanntan Xenoppix (Chou Kanntan means Super Easy)

• Step by step guide for creating a Virtual Cluster with Xen

• ApluraXenDeployment

Xen Based Hosting Service Providers

• VirtualPrivateServerProviders

• Virtualized Grid / Clustered / Elastic Hosting Providers

Xen Consultants & Consulting Firms

• Consulting Firms

• Consultants

Xen Research Projects

• Cambridge University

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

• University of British Columbia

• University of Toronto

• Rice University

• Binghampton University

• Michigan University

Third Party Projects & Applications

• Xen-tools - a set of tools to ease and automated installation of Xen guest domains

• Enomalism Virtualized Management Console for Xen (LGPL)

• XenMan A graphical, secure, full lifecycle management tool for multi-host, multi-VM Xen deployments . (GPL)

• DTC-xen A module for your dom0 so a control panel like Domain Technologie Control (DTC) can take care of the management of your VMs. It also does Network and CPU graphing for all your VMs and allow your users to connect to it's VMs physical consoles over ssh (LGPL)

• XenAccess A user-space library providing introspection for Xen. Introspection allows a privileged domain to access memory and other data from domU domains at useful abstraction levels.

• Globus Workspace Service -- A remotely invoked (SOAP) service that manages a pool of hypervisors, deploying VMs with rich authentication, authorization, networking, image staging, and lifecycle options. Client request is combination of VM metadata and per-deployment resource request.

• Xway - A module for point2point inter-domain TCP/IP networking having high-performance and low cpu-utilization(netfront - netfront)

Virtual Appliances

• VMcasting.org -- Virtual Appliance Deployment Specification based on RSS2.0

Xen based Associations & Alliances

• GeoElastic Alliance -- GeoElastic is an adhoc global alliance of hosting providers who have come together to create a global elastic computing cloud of geographically targeted virtual servers.

Community

• Active Projects - Xen.org community projects currently being worked on

• Events and meetings - Users and developers coming together, talks and presentations on conferences

How to contribute to this site

Being a wiki, the site can be updated by anyone - however you will need to create an account on this site. If you’re part of the Xen developer community, please take the time to register and get involved. Feel free to add, correct, and edit page. Please also send us your feedback so that we can be responsive to the community’s needs.

• If you would like to edit a page, please email stephen.spector@xen.org for permissions. We have setup a special file to control editing as we are securing the site from spam. One or two "official" pages are not writable.

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page.

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

• WikiSandBox: A place for experimentation-- feel free to change this page and experiment with editing