Xen Project

The Xen Project team is a global open source community that develops the Xen Project Hypervisor and its associated subprojects.

Our mission is to advance virtualization technology across a wide range of commercial and open-source domains.

Wide variety of vendors and individuals opens new opportunities for the hypervisor and provides end-users with numerous places to find support.

Over 10 million people use Xen with an ecosystem of more than 2000 commercially certified partners.

Architecture enables vendors to create Xen-based products and services for servers, cloud, desktop, embedded, and security-first environments.

Hypervisor supports multiple guest operating systems and cloud platforms.

Minimal attack surface with key security features like KCONFIG and Virtual Machine Introspection.

Architecture enables a degree of scalability, robustness, and security suitable for large, critical, and extremely secure environments.

The Xen Project focuses on revolutionizing virtualization by providing a versatile and powerful hypervisor that addresses the evolving needs of diverse industries :

Xen Project 4.20: A Step Forward in Open Source Virtualization

2025-03-11

The Xen Project has released Xen 4.20 🎉! This release introduces a range of enhancements that further solidify its position as the premier open-source hypervisor. It delivers important security updates, improved performance, and broader hardware support. Xen has doubled down as the best choice for cloud providers, enterprise users, and embedded system developers. 💡Why Xen? With strong security, high performance, and cross-architecture support, Xen remains the go-to choice for cloud provider

Xen Project Winter Meetup

2025-02-13

We just wrapped up the Xen Winter Meetup 2025. It was an amazing opportunity to push Xen forward in a way that can only happen when people get together in person. Organized by Vates, we hosted it at the University of Grenoble IMAG building, a great spot for cutting-edge research in computer science and virtualization. Our goal? Accelerate Xen’s development, bring in fresh minds, and foster stronger ties between industry and academia. 🐼 Why we did it The idea for this meetup started at the la

Welcome Honda to the Xen Project Board

2024-12-09

We're excited to announce our newest Advisory Board Member Honda, to Xen Project. Since its foundation, Honda has been committed to "creating a society that is useful to people" by utilizing its technologies and ideas. Honda also focuses on environmental responsiveness and traffic safety, and continue to take on the challenge of realizing a sustainable future. I am sure that the community will agree that this is a huge step and achievement for our open source project. Honda's investment into

Say hello to our new website

2024-12-05

Hello Xen Community, You may have noticed something different... We've refreshed our existing website! Why did we do this? Well, all these new changes are part of an ongoing effort to increase our visibility and make it easier to find information on pages. We know how important it is for both users and wider stakeholders to learn about project, progress and ways to contribute. Our documentation will still link to our old wiki for now, as this is where most of our guides are stored. However,

Xen Project Announces Performance and Security Advancements with Release of 4.19

2024-08-04

New release marks significant enhancements in performance, security, and versatility across various architectures.  SAN FRANCISCO – July 31st, 2024 – The Xen Project, an open source project under the Linux Foundation, is proud to announce the release of Xen Project 4.19. This release marks a significant milestone in enhancing performance, security, and versatility across various architectures, including Arm, PPC, RISC-V, and x86, altogether providing a robust and secure hypervisor solution

Upcoming Closure of Xen Project Colo Facility

2024-07-09

Dear Xen Community, We regret to inform you that the Xen Project is currently experiencing unexpected changes due to the sudden shutdown of our colocated (colo) data center facility by Synoptek. This incident is beyond our control and will impact the continuity of OSSTest (the gating Xen Project CI loop), which we heavily rely on as a project. We understand the inconvenience this may cause to our users and stakeholders, and we are working diligently to consider different solutions as swift

Xen Summit Talks Now Live on YouTube!

2024-06-18

Hello Xen Community! We have some thrilling news to share with you all. The highly anticipated talks from this year’s Xen Summit are now live on YouTube! Whether you attended the summit in person or couldn’t make it this time, you can now access all the insightful presentations and discussions online. Why You Should Watch the Xen Summit Talks The Xen Summit gathers experts, developers, and enthusiasts from around the world to discuss the latest advancements and future directions of our

Get ready for Xen Summit 2024!

2024-05-23

With less than 2 weeks to go, are you ready? The Xen Project is gearing up for a summit full of discussions, collaboration and innovation. If you haven’t already done so – get involved by submitting a design session topic. Don’t worry if you can’t attend in person, we’re going to have a FREE virtual element for our attendees.  This will be hosted by the community via Jitsi and is free to join! Listen in to talks, or ask questions too. Please subscribe to our mailing lists to find

Get involved: Xen Summit 2024 Design Sessions

2024-05-09

Our design sessions are now open for Xen Summit!  If you’ve attended Xen Summit before, you might be familiar with the process. For anyone who hasn’t done so before, please follow the instructions below, using the link to create an account. Once you’ve created your account, you’ll be asked to verify using the code (sent on the mailing list). That’s it, you’re in! We aim to have design sessions with a virtual element (using Jitsi/Zoom). This is free for the community to join in and l

Why is Open Source important? Hear from our community member.

2024-04-26

Community is everything at The Xen Project. We spoke to Ayan, a dedicated community member who has been working on the Xen Project on his experience. Why do you think open source is important?  Open source software (like Linux kernel, uboot, xen, trusted firmware, etc) is an integral part of the Petalinux BSP (which is based on Yocto) and I use this for my job, which is important. Why Xen? We use Xen as an example hypervisor to illustrate how to host different VMs on the same SoC.

Board members can propose and vote upon changes to the Xen Project.Members also gain valuable strategic insight into project plans and future scope.

The Xen community is a dynamic and collaborative ecosystem comprised of developers, researchers, and enthusiasts dedicated to advancing open-source virtualization technology. With diverse backgrounds and expertise, members actively contribute to Xen's evolution, fostering innovation, sharing knowledge, and supporting one another through continuous development efforts.

The mission of the Xen Project is to advance virtualisation technology across a wide range of commercial and open-source domains.