Xen.org Community

Home of the Xen® Hypervisor

The Xen hypervisor offers a powerful, efficient and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, ARM and other CPU architectures, and has been used to virtualize a wide range of guest operating systems, including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris® and various versions of the BSD operating systems. It is widely regarded as a strategically compelling alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms and hypervisors for x86 and IA64 platforms.

The Xen.org community currently develops the open source Xen Hypervisor as well as several other open source products:

• Xen Cloud Platform - Xen Hypervisor Platform for Cloud Computing
• Xen ARM - Xen Hypervisor for ARM CPUs
• Check the project index for a full list

The history of the Xen.org community and Xen hypervisor project can be read on the Xen history page. If you are new to Xen.org or want to learn more please read the New to Xen Guide

Jobs in the Xen Community

Periodically there companies that are active in the Xen community will offer jobs. The job listing page contains jobs that are available in the Xen community.

Xen.org Community

The following tools of the Xen.org community are found within Xen.org:

• Xen Community Mailing Lists
• Xen Community Projects, Products and Services
• Xen Solution Search Tool (defunct)
• Xen Community Blog
• Xen Development Community Wiki
• Xen Bugzilla Database
• Xen Videos from YouTube

The following deliverables can be used by any Xen.org member wishing to promote the community or Xen hypervisor:

• Xen.org Community Overview Brochure: English - Chinese - German - Polish - Korean
• Xen.org & Hypervisor Brochure: English - Portuguese - Japanese - Chinese - German
• Xen.org Overview Slides: English - Spanish - German - Polish - Portuguese - Japanese
• Xen.org Merchandise Store

The Xen project, led by Ian Pratt of Citrix Systems, Inc. is entirely independent of any commercial activity on the part of any vendor that collaborates in the open source project. It is run according to the established open source development process, and benefits from a diverse community of contributors and maintainers solely on the basis of technical merit. At xen.org, code rules.

Xen Logos, Mascots and other Images

See Xen Logos, Mascots and other Images to download and use the mascot, templates and other Xen related images.

In early 2010, a community contest was held to create the Xen.org mascot. Thanks to Valentin Höbel for his idea, and Brian Hall for the artistic creation, the official mascot was launched in June 2010. In 2011 the idea of Xen Fu Panda was born. Thank you to Anna Alfut for the artistic creation.

Xen Social Networking Sites

• Facebook: Xen Virtualisation
• LinkedIn: Xen Masters
• Ohloh: Xen Project
• Xing: Open Source Xen
• Plaxo: Xen Virtualization
• Linux.com: Xen.org Group
• SlideShare: Xen.org Group

Xen Champions - A community of Xen members discussing and sharing ideas on marketing, promotion, presentations, and other non-developer focused activites for Xen. Join Here.

Xen User Groups

• Brazil Xen User Group: http://www.xen-br.org
• Los Angeles Xen User Group: http://www.meetup.com/Xen-User-Group-Los-Angeles

Xen Advisory Board

The Xen Advisory Board serves in an advisory capacity to the Xen project leader for all community and development activities as well as management for the Xen® trademark. The Xen Advisory Board contains members from the top 5 contributors to the Xen project and key vendors that deliver the Xen hypervisor in their products; current members are Citrix, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, and VA Linux Systems Japan.

The site is maintained by the Xen community, but is hosted by Citrix® Systems.