About Xen.org - Overview

Welcome to xen.org, home of the Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.

The Xen hypervisor offers a powerful, efficient and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC 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.

Xen.org Community

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

• Xen Source Code Repository
• Xen Community Mailing Lists
• Xen Community Projects
• Xen Community Blog
• Xen Development Community Wiki
• Xen Bugzilla Database

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 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, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems.

The site is maintained by the Xen community, but is hosted by XenSource, a Citrix® company.