Index Guide

Wiki Sidebar and Top Level Categories

Navigation by category

Our wiki categorizes pages strictly. This means, that you can use categories to navigate through content. Note that ...

• Our category pages are not normally just indexes, but frequently have a hand-edited header, which highlight important information.
• All documents are in one of these three categories: this makes it possible to browse
• These categories are exposed in the sidebar
• Note that these categories can be rather big!

Audience

• Beginners of Xen, XCP, etc.
• Users of Xen, XCP, etc.
• Developers of Xen, XCP, etc.
• Project (for project teams; general project info)
• Community (general community documents)

Document Type

• Manuals contains official Xen documentation
• ManPage contains This section contains link to Xen manual pages that are generated from the Xen codebase
• Overviews contains overview documents
• FAQs contains Xen, XCP, ... FAQs sorted by topic
• HowTos contains Xen, XCP, ... How To documents
• Tutorials contains Xen, XCP, ... tutorials
• Example contains Xen, XCP, ... examples
• Compatibility contains information on compatibility
• Glossary pages and definitions
• Index Pages are lists of pages that are not categories

Technology

Note that the following categories are rather large. They list documents about the Xen Hypervisor, XCP, Xen ARM and PVOPS (Xen in Linux).

Categories for specific uses

Release Related

• Category:Release Notes contain Xen release notes
• Category:Xen 4.2 contain articles related to Xen 4.2 features, benchmarks, planning, etc.

Installation Related

• Category:Host Install contains documents related to installing Xen on a host
• Category:Guest Install contains Documents related to installing guests on Xen
• Category:Host Configuration contains documents related to bootloader, console and network configuration

Linux/Unix Distribution Related

Categories related to Linux/Unix distro. Typically contain tutorials, install info, etc. for a specific distro.

• Category:Arch Linux
• Category:Alpine Linux
• Category:CentOS
• Category:Debian
• Category:Fedora
• Category:FreeBSD
• Category:Finnix
• Category:Gentoo
• Category:NetBSD
• Category:Oracle Linux
• Category:OpenIndiana
• Category:OpenSuSE
• Category:RHEL
• Category:Solaris
• Category:Ubuntu

Cloud Related

Categories related to Xen/XCP integration with cloud stacks

• Category:CloudStack
• Category:OpenStack

Technology Related (Networking, Performance, Security, NUMA, VGA, ...)

Specialist topics on Xen:

• Category:Networking contains articles related to networking
• Category:NUMA contains all articles related to the running (or to improving the support for doing so) of the Xen Hypervisor on NUMA architectures
• Category:Performance contains documents, tuning instructions and benchmarks related to the performance of Xen, XCP, etc.
• Category:Security contains documents related to Xen, XCP, etc. security
• Category:VGA contains documents related to VGA, VTd, GPY passthrough, etc.
• Category:XCI contains documents related to XCI aka the Xen Client Initiative

Development Related

These contain categories for developers:

• Category:Development Process describes development processes, governance, etc..
• Category:Design Document contains design documents, architecture descriptions, and so on: in short it contains documents that describe how parts of the codebase work. Documents in this category are mainly relevant for developers.
• Category:OCaml related to the OCaml language, in which most of XCP is implemented.

Community Related

• Category:GSoC contains documents related to Google Summer of Code
• Category:Events contains information related to events
• Category:Wiki Management contains documents related to managing the Xen Wiki