Foreword

With the recent release of Xen 3.1 the Xen community has delivered the world’s most advanced hypervisor, which serves as an open source industry standard for virtualization. The Xen community benefits from the support of over 20 of the world’s leading IT vendors, contributions from vendors and research groups worldwide, and is the driving force of innovation in virtualization in the industry.

The continued growth and excellence of Xen is a vindication of the project’s component strategy. Rather than developing a complete open source product, the project endorses an integrated approach whereby the Xen hypervisor is included as the virtualization “engine” in multiple products and projects. For example, Xen is delivered as an integrated ...

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