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Xen Project has been at the forefront of the birth of Cloud Operating Systems: specialized lightweight operating systems which are only intended to be used within a Virtual Machine. These Cloud Operating Systems may become the core of a new form of cloud, where a single hypervisor instance can support hundreds or even thousands of VMs.

The following Cloud Operating Systems currently have some relationship (formal or not) to the Xen Project:

  • MirageOS
  • Erlang on Xen
  • OSv