It is especially used for advanced virtualization, not least for servers, in both commercial and open source environments. The Xen Project now works with The Linux Foundation in promoting open source applications. Originally developed by Cambridge University, the staff who created it spun it into a company that was later acquired by Citrix.
Xen Project is a free and open source virtual machine monitor (VMM), intended to serve as a type-1 hyperviser for multiple operating systems using the same hardware. +Free and open source +Advanced virtualization +Works with hyperscale clouds
