Xen.org Projects
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
Xen Hypervisor Project
The Xen Hypervisor project develops the Xen Hypervisor including basic command line tools, Dom0 drivers, etc. The project
only delivers source code release. It does not deliver a binary version of the hypervisor. But, binary versions of Xen are
distributed by major Linux and BSD distributions:
More information on the project portal.
XCP Project
The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud computing platform,
delivering the Xen Hypervisor with the XenAPI toolstack and support for a range of
guest operating systems including Windows® and Linux® network and storage support, management tools in a single,
tested installable image, which is also called XCP appliance. In short, XCP is a complete Xen distribution.
More information on XCP can be found on the project portal.
Incubation Projects
This list includes projects which we have not yet migrated to the Governance introduced in June 2011.
The 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 about the project can be found on the Xen ARM Project Portal.
XCI - Xen Hypervisor for Client Devices
XCI is an embedded client hypervisor based on the Xen hypervisor using smaller libraries; giving a
smaller memory and disk footprint than the standard Xen hypervisor. This product is intended for laptops or other mobile devices
using standard Intel or AMD architecture. The project is an incubation project.
Archived and Completed Projects
HXEN - Hosted Xen
Hosted Xen (HXEN) runs the Xen core hypervisor as a Type-2 VMM on top of a regular operating system instead of the usual Type-1 methodology that the Xen hypervisor is designed for. HXEN is capable of
running on top of any operating system but is currently being developed for Windows and Mac OSX. The project has been archived. If you are interested in
restarting the HXE project or starting a new project to port HXEN to another operating system, please contact your Community Manager.
Project Satori
Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems.
The base Satori components are released by Microsoft as the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V, and provide support for paravirtualized XenLinux guests running on Hyper-V.
The Linux Integration Components can be downloaded here.
The Project Satori home page on Xen.org is here and includes licensing information and code downloads. The project has completed and has thus
been archived.
Xen Related Projects and Products
Xen is a popular virtualization platform. As one would expect, many projects that depend on Xen, build applications for Xen, etc. exist.
These projects are not hosted on Xen.org.
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