Xen - Hosts

Hosts

Xen can be shipped in a dedicated virtualization platform, such as Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition (formerly XenSource's XenEnterprise).

Alternatively, Xen is distributed as an optional configuration of many standard operating systems. Xen available for and distributed with:

  • openSUSE 10.x to 12.x; only 64-bit hosts are supported since 12.1
  • Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (since version 10)
  • Sun Microsystems' Solaris
  • Debian GNU/Linux (since version 4.0 "etch") and many of its derivatives
  • Ubuntu (12.04 "Precise Pangolin" and later releases; also 8.04 Hardy Heron, but no dom0-capable kernel in 8.10 Intrepid Ibex until 12.04
  • Gentoo and Arch Linux both have packages available to support Xen.
  • OpenSolaris-based distributions can function as dom0 and domU from Nevada build 75 onwards.
  • NetBSD 3.x. includes host support for Xen 2, with host support for Xen 3.0 available from NetBSD 4.0.
  • Univention Corporate Server

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