3 years ago

But virtualization has become such a common element in infrastructures that the existence of hypervisors has been practically forgotten. Innovation in this field has been considerably limited, while hardware (which is what all infrastructures in the world have in common) has continued to innovate.

Less than two years after the start of the project, it’s now hosted in the Linux Foundation’s official Xen Project.

Finally, on the technical side, the team of developers working full-time on XCP-ng has grown from three developers in 2018 to seven in 2020 and is actively contributing to the Xen Core project — as evidenced by the latest Xen security patch regarding a flaw in Xen’s handling of PCI passthrough.

Vates’ objective was to take advantage of its expertise and strong involvement in the open source world to bring to the Xen Project what it has always more or less lacked — a community of active users using and contributing to the project, a financial investment in order to innovate on the solution and to reinvigorate the Xen Project by promoting it at a larger scale.