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
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
LiveCD - Try Xen without install
Translations
XenTranslation - This wiki in other languages.
Weekly Community Updates
XenWeekly- The weekly community update
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
Document Update Project - Document Update Project Notes
Xen Work - Development Ideas from Community
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
Xen Examples
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
New Xen Solution Search Tool at http://xen.cyberneticos.com
Xen Based Hosting Service Providers
Xen Consultants & Consulting Firms
JobListings - Looking for a position based on your Xen experience?
Xen Research Projects
Third Party Projects & Applications
Xen-tools - a set of tools to ease and automated installation of Xen guest domains
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
