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
As I continue to learn more about Xen, I find it interesting to read old documents that show the transformation of Xen from a research project at Cambridge University to the current leading open source hypervisor technology. A great link form Cambridge University is available with a collection of documents