This page lists documentation by your level of interest in the project.
News Sources
- The Xen Project Blog covers technical and community-related stories, as well as press releases
- xen-announce@ mailing list is a low-frequency mailing list for important announcements
- xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa lists upcoming security vulnerability announcements
Our Wiki, the main Source for Documentation
The Xen Project Wiki is the primary source for documentation of the Xen Project software. Note that there is also related documentation in many Linux/Unix distributions and there are a host of tutorials published on 3rd party websites and blogs. The community strives to link to external information when we come across it to make it easier for YOU to find information about the Xen Project software.
- Manuals
- Overviews
- FAQs
- HowTos
- Tutorials
- Example
- Compatibility
- Glossary
- Index Pages
- Help Contents
- User Categories
Information in our wiki is organized through different indexes (also called categories). The following guide will help you navigate the wiki.
Note that documentation for XenServer (as well as its deprecated sibling XCP, and XCP’s successor XCP-ng) is not stored on the Xen Project Wiki. As XenServer is a separate distribution of the Xen Project software which is supported by its own community, the XenServer documentation is stored on the XenServer Wiki.
Contribute to the Wiki!
The Xen Project Wiki is open to everyone, however, we have been subject to spam attacks and put a simple procedure in place to grant access. Please follow the following instructions to create a wiki account with write access:
- Create an account and log in
- Become an editor (this is new and may take a couple of hours)
- Read the Wiki Guide
- Play with the Sandbox
Team Documentation
Hypervisor Documentation
The Xen Project Hypervisor team generates man pages, support statements, feature specifications, interface documentation and some other documentation from the source tree. Source generated documentation can’t be found on xenbits.xenproject.org/docs. Most documentation is organized by release
- x.y-testing contains the documentation for the x,.y releases, and maintenance releases (e.g. 4.11-testing)
- unstable contains the documentation for the unstable development tree
- unstable-staging contains the documentation for the staging development tree
In addition, there are a number of test related resources:
- docs/xtf contains the API documentation for microkernel-based tests and descriptions of tests built using the XTF framework
- logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest contains logs for our Test Lab. Also, see osstest-output@ for e-mail based test result reporting.
- GitLab CI Pipelines contains the user-facing portions of our GitLab CI
Other Teams
For other teams, please check the respective Team Portal for project specific documentation.
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All Xen Project mailing lists are archived using the MarkMail system at xen.markmail.org. Often you will find an answer to a question by searching here!