Xen Users Guide

Welcome to the official Xen Users Guide. Every section of the guide walks you through a different feature so you can use Xen effectively.

Note

We appreciate your help! If you spot errors in the guide, consider contributing fixes back. See Contributing for indications on what to do.

Intended audience

This guide teaches users how to use the Xen infrastructure in various configurations. The expected audience includes sysadmins, software engineers and enthusiasts that want to use Xen.

We encourage developers and contributors to head over the Developers Guide (TODO: ref) instead in order to find the reference documentation of the Xen internals.

Where to start

Feeling lost and don’t know where to start?

Every section of the guide gives some suggestions about next steps so that it’s easier to know where to go from where you are. Follow them if in doubt, or go to the following section if they don’t seem to apply to you.

• If you know very little about Xen, then head over to Introduction in order to get a general overview of the sort of problems it can help you solve.

• If you know roughly what Xen can do and are looking for a way to start using it, then head over to Getting started and follow the instructions there.

• If you are a regular Xen user, then simply jump ahead to whatever piques your interest. Every section ends with a suggestion of next steps so you can easily see related content.