Xen and KVM offer distinct advantages, such as the ability to run multiple OSes simultaneously and gain access to network flexibility. These hypervisors are Linux-based and have vendor support for ...

Back when ESXi used to dominate the home server ecosystem, Xen was the other key player for Linux-centric setups. But with the rise of KVM, the situation is a lot different from what it used to be.

Unlike Red Hat Virtualization or Oracle VM, the Citrix XenServer hypervisor offers different features between its unsupported free edition and its supported standard and enterprise editions. It's ...

The Xen Project released 12 security advisories on July 28, and three of them describe flaws that could let a virtual machine seize control of the physical server running it — the worst possible ...

The Xen hypervisor project, backed by major vendors such as Intel, Oracle, HP, Citrix Systems and Novell, will expand beyond the hypervisor to supply a full virtualization environment. The Xen.org ...

You may have heard that Citrix, in what can only be described as an exceptionally bold move -- and risky, calculated gamble, all at the same time -- is now giving ...

Citrix aims to beat VMware at virtualization. A year ago it bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and switched the Citrix business focus to ...

I'm finding myself increasingly often in the situation of needing "scratch systems" to test things on, work with complex .deb packages, etc. I'm wondering what general opinion on emulation packages is ...

Things don’t always go smoothly when you try to mix the world of open source with the world of proprietary commercial software. Sometimes those worlds collide. All too often, proprietary vendors are ...

Groups led by developers at Citrix and Samsung are bringing Xen hypervisor to ARM Cortex A15, but a KVM project isn't far behind Several Xen developers who currently work for Citrix recently announced ...

With the free Citrix XenServer virtualization platform, it's easy to create a highly available virtual server cluster; here's how High availability used to be expensive, requiring both specialized ...