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Xen Project

Bring the power of open virtualization everywhere.

Ops & Infravirtualizationhypervisoropen-sourcecloudembeddedsecurityunikernel
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About

Xen Project is an open-source virtualization initiative that develops a powerful hypervisor used by over 10 million people and supported by more than 2000 commercial partners. It provides flexible, secure virtualization technology for servers, cloud, desktop, embedded, and automotive environments. The project also maintains an ecosystem of related tools and sub-projects including MirageOS, Unikraft, XAPI, and XCP-ng.

Problem

Organizations need a flexible, secure, and open-source hypervisor that can serve diverse environments from cloud to embedded and automotive systems.

For

enterprises, cloud providers, embedded system developers, and security-focused organizations

How it works

The Xen Project hypervisor uses a minimal-attack-surface architecture with hardware virtualization support, enabling isolation of multiple guest operating systems on a single host with modular security features like KCONFIG and VM introspection.

Business model

open-source

Status

launched

Company

Xen Project

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