- Getting The Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project hypervisor is available as source distribution from these download pages. You can find instructions on how to build the Xen Project source release at this page. Sources for Xen Project Binaries. The Xen Project Hypervisor is the basis for many commercial products.
- I'm in the process of migrating XenServer virtuals over to open source Xen. Things are going along really well, except I haven't been able to successfully remove the Citrix Windows PV drivers and then install the GPLPV drivers. After I remove the Citrix PV drivers, the drivers seem like they are gone.
What is the Xen Project Hypervisor?
Using the menu-based system, the user chooses the relevant libraries; for a Xen driver domain, this would include a physical network driver, the netback driver, the libxenplat library and a library from the architecture library pool such as libx8664arch (Step 2 in the figure). I'm in the process of migrating XenServer virtuals over to open source Xen. Things are going along really well, except I haven't been able to successfully remove the Citrix Windows PV drivers and then install the GPLPV drivers. After I remove the Citrix PV drivers, the drivers seem like they are gone. I then install the GPLPV drivers, which claim to install successfully, but then.
The Xen Project Hypervisor is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for x86-compatible computers. The hypervisor can securely execute multiple virtual machines, each running its own OS, on a single physical system with close-to-native performance. You can find an overview at Xen Project Software Overview.
I'd like to read some kind of overview about Xen Project software
See the Xen Project Software Overview wiki page and Category:Overview. Also check the following PDF documents (which are somewhat out-of-date):
How is the Xen Project software licensed?
Xen Project software is Open Source, and is released under terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Some Xen Project elements may contain licensing exceptions or a small number of files which are licensed under a GPL compatible license. If so, the source repository contains a COPYING file providing more information (see here for the COPYING file for the hypervisor).
Xen Project software does not come with an End User License as the GPL suffices. There is however a trademark policy that restricts the use of the Xen Project brand to ensure that all Xen Project branded hypervisors are compatible and will run the same guest VMs. You can find the trademark policy here.
There is a separate trademark for Xen alone. That trademark is owned by Citrix, which controls the use of that mark.
Operating systems or other applications written to use Xen Project's hypercall interface are not derived works of Xen Project, hence may be licensed differently.
Where can I read about the history of the Xen Project?
Please see the history article on the main XenProject.org website.
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Where do I find information on Compatibility?
You can find answers to questions such as the following, at Xen Project FAQ Compatibility:
- Which OSes run on the hypervisor?
- Does Xen Project support Microsoft Windows?
- Does Xen Project run on laptops?
- Which architectures does Xen Project support?
- Does Xen Project support 32bit and 64bit?
Where do I find more General FAQs?
See the common problems document
Windows
updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of January 2020 (14th)
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- As Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 approached the end of their support lifecycle this is the last public image provided for OTC platform. For details see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4456235/end-of-support-for-windows-server-2008-and-windows-server-2008-r2
- 2020-01 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4534314)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - January 2020 (KB890830)
- 2020-01 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4534310)
- 2020-01 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB4535102)
- 2020-01 Security Only Update for .NET Framework 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB4534976)
- 2020-01 Servicing Stack Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4536952)
- 2020-01 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based systems (KB4534251)
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- 2020-01 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4534309)
- 2020-01 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4534297)
- 2020-01 Security Only Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8 for Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB4534978)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - January 2020 (KB890830)
- 2020-01 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 11 for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based systems (KB4534251)
- Windows Server 2016
- 2020-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB4534271)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - January 2020 (KB890830)
- Windows Server 2019
- 2020-01 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB4535101)
- Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - January 2020 (KB890830)
- Security Intelligence Update for Windows Defender Antivirus - KB2267602 (Version 1.307.2371.0)
- 2020-01 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 (1809) for x64-based Systems (KB4534273)
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Driver and tools of all Windows Server types
- Cloudbase-Init: 0.9.12.dev86
- XEN GPL driver: 5.0.136.10
- bugs fixes in uvp monitor.
- win2012R2 vms, when the network card config more than 1 ip, after the stop and start actions, the pvdriver may send the packet to other ips, not the main network card ip
- win2008, system info in EOS notification is wrong
- all windows vms, the capacity of vxdd can not be queried
- driver versions
DeviceName DriverVersion Manufacturer Xen Net Device Driver 5.0.128.10 Xen GPL PV Driver Developers Xen Block Device Driver 3.0.144.590 Xen GPL PV Driver Developers Xen PCI Device Driver 5.0.128.10 Xen GPL PV Driver Developers
- bugs fixes in uvp monitor.
- KVM UVP Vmtools: 2.5.0.156
- improve the performance and bug fixes of virtIO drivers:
DeviceName DriverVersion Manufacturer VirtIO Balloon Driver _.6.101.58000 Red Hat, Inc. VirtIO Serial Driver xyz _.6.101.58000 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat VirtIO SCSI controller _.6.101.58000 Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat VirtIO Ethernet Adapter _.6.101.58000 Red Hat, Inc.
- Intel SRIOV (High Performance ) driver : Version 24.2, August 1, 2019
- NVIDIA vGPU driver: 370.41 (fixes CVE‑2019‑5698)
- NVIDIA pGPU driver: 441.22 (fixes CVE‑2019‑5690 - CVE‑2019‑5693, CVE‑2019‑5695)
- NVIDIA V100 driver: 426.26 (fixes CVE‑2019‑5698)
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SUSE
SLES 11 and its corresponding SAP images will be retired soon. Because the general support from SUSE for SLES 11 ended on 31 March 2019, we will not build this image anymore. The currently running instances will not be impacted. The SLES 11 image will soon be removed from the public choice of images but if you have the UUID of the image at hand, you will still be able to deploy instances using SLES 11.
New Red Hat based images
- CentOS 7.7 released
- Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.7 released
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 released and certified