The Xen® hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. (more)

"I think Xen is a great product. It is easy to use. But most importantly is the very active community around it...", Werner Vogels,CTO Amazon.com from his video interview on Virtualization.com

Ian Pratt's FOSDEM '08 Interview /Slides

Ian Pratt's NSDI '08 Keynote /Slides

Ian Pratt's USENIX '08 Annual Technical Conference Keynote

Simon Crosby's video on Xen

Xen.org Blog

Community Projects

Xen 3.2 Whitepaper PDF / Xen 3.2 DataSheet PDF

Download the latest version of Xen

Community Activities

Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia): November 20 - 21, 2008
Xen Summit Boston 2008:June 23 - 24
Running Xen Book Available

Xen in the News

InfoWorld Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008...(8/5/08)
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Video on Virtualization...(8/4/08)
SourceLabs Self-Support Suite Works with Xen Now...(6/19/08)
Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.0...(5/5/08)
Simon Crosby Interview on XML Journal...(5/1/08)
Citrix Aims High...(4/10/08)
Web Hosting Provider & Domain Registrar VEXXHOST...(3/31/08)
Sesame Workshop Welcomes Novell to the Neighborhood... (3/19/08)
Novell announces development plans for SUSE Linux Enteprise 11... (3/18/08)
Red Hat takes Xen approach with latest OS... (3/14/08)
Dedicated Servers for Managed Xen Virtual Hosting... (3/5/08)
Install, Configure, Manage, and Adminster Xen Servers... (2/22/08)
Citrix Keeps Open Source Xen Promise (2/11/08)