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For those of you tracking my “History of Xen” blog series, I am proud to announce that we finally have the story of where “Xen” came from – check out this comment.Â
The final installment of the History of Xen – Architecture involves the ultimate question, where does the name “Xen” come from? It is clear that Xen comes from the XenoServer project at Cambridge which is the research that the Xen hypervisor emerged from. The name “Xeno” for the XenoServer project is
In reading the two documents posted in Part 2, I discovered even more interesting work that was done previously. I think we are now getting close to the earliest research from which the open source Xen project was created. For your reading pleasure: * Isolation of Shared Network Resources in XenoServers
As stated earlier in my first History of Xen – Architecture post, I am on the active trail of the history of Xen and will continue to publish documents and information to help give the community a complete history of the project from idea to development to open source solution. I