The history of Xen: the Cambridge hypervisor
In 2003, a hypervisor emerged from Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory and changed how servers were divided up. Xen — type 1, GPLv2, paravirtualization — became the foundation of Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and later Qubes OS. In 2026, Xen Project 4.21 is still the core of XenServer, XCP-ng, and a … Read more