Project Summary
The Xen Project is a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project that focusses on the development and support of the Xen open source hypervisor and related components, developed and designed to run with the Linux platform. It includes the Xen Hypervisor, the Xen ARM Hypervisor, XAPI and Mirage OS. This page covers the Hypervisor.
The Xen Project is open for participation from individuals and companies who have an interest in advancing the state of the Xen ecosystem. The Xen Project follows open source best practices, where code is contributed through an open and transparent process, and evaluated for inclusion based upon technical merit. Committers and Maintainers are elected based upon their standing in the project.
In a Nutshell, Xen Project (Hypervisor)...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 181 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 3 days ago
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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