Xen Developers Information

This wiki page is for developers interested in writing software, testing builds, or documenting the various Xen products (projects).

Xen Hypervisor Project

Xen Architecture
- XenTerminology
- Xen Papers - http://www.xen.org/community/xenpapers.html
WhosDoingWhat - most current list of developers working on Xen and their various parts of the product
XenRepositories - list of Xen related sourcecode repositories and changelogs of the trees, including kernels.
XenRoadMap - list of current proposed features for next release and complete history of Xen requested features
SubmittingXenPatches - process to submit a patch to the latest Xen unstable branch
AskingXenDevelQuestions - how best to ask a question on xen-devel
XenDevelopmentProjects - list of Xen related projects for (new) developers to work on!
CrossCompiling - how to cross-build the hypervisor, kernel and tools
Xen Work - list of open features looking for developers to support
Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject - latest information on new documentation for Xen hypervisor
XenDebugging - debugging Xen
XenSerialConsole - access Xen from a console
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-changelog - Xen Changelog contains the latest patches to the Xen hypervisor source tree

Xen4.1 - the latest Xen release
2.6.18-to-2.6.31-and-higher - Build PVOps kernel
XenKernelFeatures - various features supported by different Xen enabled Linux kernels
XenParavirtOps - the upstream linux kernel with Xen
- XenParavirtOpsHelp - what is required for users submitting bug requests for XenPVOps kernel
XenVGAPassthrough - VGA graphics adapter passthrough to Xen HVM (fully virtualized) guests
XenUSBPassthrough -passthru of USB devices from dom0 to guests
XenPCIpassthrough - PCI passthru to assign a PCI device to a guest
XenLinuxPVonHVMdrivers - using optimized PV-on-HVM drivers with Xen HVM guests running (unmodified) Linux kernels
XenPVSCSI - PVSCSI allows high performance passthrough of SCSI devices (or LUNs) from dom0 to a Xen PV or HVM guest
blktap - toolkit provides a user-level disk I/O interface (pre Xen 4.0 information)
blktap2 - toolkit provides a user-level disk I/O interface (post Xen 4.0 information)
VTdHowTo - give a domU exclusive access to a PCI function using the IOMMU provided by VT-d
xenpm - power management design/features of Xen
Remus - Fault Tolerance for Xen, Transparent High Availability for VMs.