Development

Needs Rewrite This document is somewhat out-of-date. It would benefit from updated links, Trails to get started for different projects (maybe in subpages) and a common section.

Xen Developers Information

This wiki page is for developers interested in writing software, testing builds, or documenting the various Xen products (projects).

Xen Hypervisor Project

How Xen Development takes place

The primary place to go to ask development questions, submit patches, and find out about the forthcoming roadmap, is the xen-devel mailing list.

There is also some more specific information:

• SubmittingXenPatches - process to submit a patch to the latest Xen unstable branch
• XenRepositories - list of Xen related sourcecode repositories and changelogs of the trees, including kernels.
• AskingXenDevelQuestions - how best to ask a question on xen-devel
• XenDevelopmentProjects - list of Xen related projects for (new) developers to work on!
• http://lists.xensource.com/xen-changelog - The Xen changelog lists receive copies of commits made to the Xen hypervisor source tree

Technical information

• XenSerialConsole - We recommend configuring Xen and your dom0 to log to a serial port and capturing the output eg with a serial concentrator
• XenTerminology
• XenDebugging
• XenParavirtOpsHelp - how to report bugs in the Linux kernel when used with Xen

Xen ARM Project

• XenARM - Overview of Xen ARM Project

Xen Introspection Project

• Xen Introspection - Overview of Xen Introspection Project

Xen Cloud Platform

• XCP: XCP Overview - Overview of Xen Cloud Platform Project

Xen HXEN Project

• Xen HXEN - Overview of HXEN (Hosted Xen)