Re:XenServer open sourced
by laveur on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @02:12PM
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You know I always figured that this was just open source to begin with.... I guess I was wrong.
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Most of the software was already open source, but the pay-for version of XenServer had a few more features than the open source Xen Cloud Platform.
Somewhat to my surprise, Citrix also released the XenCenter management application under an open source license. It would be nice to see a port of that to linux.
Re:XenServer open sourced
by patrickg_zill on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @01:29AM
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the API , called XAPI, that the management application uses, has always been public and open source, as far as I know. It is based on OCaml, IIRC.
> It is based on OCaml, IIRC.
Yes, that's true. They also have some Haskell developers, but they are working on XenClient, not XenServer.
The article mentions the Xen hypervisor was indeed open source all along, just the full-blown XenServer had proprietary components.
Re:XenServer open sourced
by changdizzle on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @05:39PM
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Yeah, Xen was always open source but XenServer Essentials was the premium component that people paid for - stuff like GSLB, HA, storage management, etc
Similar to how VMWare gave away View for free to eat at Citrix's XenDesktop market share, Citrix decided to do the same on the Hypervisor side.
Re:XenServer open sourced
by Patrick_Devine on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @12:09AM
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I think Citrix does two things with this; it potentially stops losing more market share to KVM, particularly in regards to OpenStack, and it also will potentially eat in to ESX market share. In the last slides I saw at http://personal.crocodoc.com/4YprKmn KVM was at 71% of deployed OpenStack installations and Xen was at a combined 13%.
FD: I've worked at VMware for the last 11 years and have worked on ESX since 1.5.