NewToXen
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New To Xen
This wiki page is for people looking for introductory material to the Xen community and various Xen products (projects).
General Information
Xen in Action
- Examples of open source Xen running in global production environments
- Xen vs. XCP
- Xen is a source code distribution (a bit like the Linux Kernel)
- If you want to use binaries, use XCP and XCP on xen.org instead of Xen (installable ISO) which contains Xen, Linux binaries and the XenAPI toolstack
Xen Hypervisor
- Xen Try the Xen hypervisor without installation using the LiveCD - Note that there is no Live CD for Xen 4.x - We are looking for volunteers to put one together!
- Xen Books
Paid Support and Providers
See Vendors, Projects and Commercial Users of Xen
Downloads
- Xen Archives (these are source releases)
- XCP Archives (these are binary distributions)
Technology
- Compatibility Lists
- Dom0 distro compatibility list and appropriate links
- DomU distro compatibility list and appropriate links
- Documentation pitched at Beginners
- FAQs: The majority of these are grouped by topic, but XenCommonProblems and XenUsersQuestions contain ungrouped questions. Have a look there, if you do not find an answer to your question.
- HOW TOs: How to examples on a variety of xen instllations
- Tutorials: Tutoprials on specific topics
- Examples: Examples (a bit rough on the edges)
