Installing Xen - Xen Virtualization Tutorial

This page last updated: 2009-07-2 12:04:03 AM (EDT)

Installing, Configuring, and Using Xen

2009 Xen Training/Tutorial

This new, updated Xen tutorial is written by Zach Shepherd and Wenjin Hu, originally derived from materials written by Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur. It was presented numerous times at Xen Summit in various locations across the United States. Its purpose is to teach the installation, configuration, and use of the free, open-source Xen virtual machine monitor (hypervisor), as well as best practices.

This work (2009 Xen Training/Tutorial) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License.

Hands-On Guide

The book, Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization (Jeanna N. Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wenjin Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, Brendan Johnson), might also be helpful to you. It is co-authored by several of both the original and updated tutorial contributors.

Additional Xen Resources

Xen Portal

The Clarkson Open Source Institute maintains the COSI Xen Portal, which contains links to other useful resources. You should check it out to find out where to go next.

2005 HowTo

The original, very popular (but aging) "Installing Xen" HowTo (McCabe, Basinger, Despard, Bongio) is still available by clicking here. It has been superceded by the 2009 PDF document.


This webpage is maintained as a service to the FOSS community by the Clarkson Open Source Institute. [COSI Website] [COSI Xen Portal] [Running Xen Book]