LinuxDevCenter: Linux Virtualization with Xen

“Xen is the new virtualization kid on the block. It’s gaining
visibility and importance at a speed only projects such as Linux
and Apache have seen before. Xen has been around for a couple of
years: it was originally part of the Xenoserver platform, which
aimed to build a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed
computing. Ian Pratt, the principal investigator of the Xenoserver
project at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, still
leads the development team.

“Xen ended up being much more than a part of this project. Now
many Linux distributions and some hardware vendors are picking it
up. As with many important open source projects these days, it even
has a company–Xensource–backing commercial versions and providing
support for corporate customers. Xensource also employs several
industry veterans. In short, Xen(source) has everything a good open
source platform need to becomes an extremely important player in
the industry…”

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