Also known as Xen Project
Xen (pronounced ) is a free and open-source type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, AMD, Bitdefender and EPAM Systems.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Xen Project
- Software.logo
- Xen hypervisor logo black.svg
- Software.screenshot
- Xen screenshot.png
- Software.caption
- Xen running NetBSD and three Linux distributions
- Software.author
- Keir Fraser, Steven Hand, Ian Pratt, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
- Software.developer
- Linux FoundationIntel
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Hypervisor
- Software.license
- GPLv2
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- xenproject.org
- Image
- Xen screenshot.png
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- Commons category
- Xen
- software version identifier
- 4.21
- source code repository URL
- xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git
- social media followers
- 2675
- user manual URL
- wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/xen
- official blog URL
- xenproject.org/blog
- publication date
- 2003-09-09
- mailing list archive URL
- xen.markmail.org
- MAC Address Block Large ID
- 00163E
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15 sectionsContents
- Software architecture
- History
- Release history
- Uses
- Types of virtualization
- Features
- Availability
- {{Anchor|XENSERVER}}Hosts
- Guests
- Management
- Commercial versions
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Xen (pronounced ) is a free and open-source type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. It was originally developed by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and is now being developed by the Linux Foundation with support from Intel, Citrix, Arm Ltd, Huawei, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, AMD, Bitdefender and EPAM Systems.
The Xen Project community develops and maintains Xen Project as free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. Xen Project is currently available for the IA-32, x86-64 and ARM instruction sets.