Xen & Docker: Made for Each Other! | Linux Today

Xen & Docker: Made for Each Other!

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 8, 2014

XenServer is a packaged product consisting of the Xen Project Hypervisor and the Xen Project Management API (XAPI) toolstack within a performance tuned CentOS distribution. It’s free and can be installed in just a few minutes; click here to download it: http://xenserver.org/open-source-virtualization-download.html.

Xen Orchestra (XO) is a simple but powerful web interface working out-of-the-box with XenServer, or any host with Xen and XAPI (the most advanced API for Xen). Take a look on the project website to learn more. Both of these tool are of course free software.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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