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Open Source
Projects, Tools & Apps for Xen
Cloud
Orchestration & Management AppScale: An
open-source research framework for execution of Google AppEngine applications
and investigation of scalable cloud computing fabrics. Eucalyptus: Eucalyptus
enables the creation of on-premise private clouds, with no requirements
for retooling the organization's existing IT infrastructure or need to
introduce specialized hardware. Eucalyptus implements an IaaS
(Infrastructure as a Service) private cloud that is accessible via an
API compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. Nimbus: Nimbus
Platform is an integrated set of tools that deliver the power and
versatility of infrastructure clouds to scientific users. Nimbus
Platform allows you to combine Nimbus, OpenStack, Amazon, and other clouds.
Nimbus Infrastructure is an open source EC2/S3-compatible
Infrastructure-as-a-Service implementation specifically targeting
features of interest to the scientific community such as support for
proxy credentials, batch schedulers, best-effort allocations and others.
Cloudstack: CloudStack is open
source software written in java that is designed to deploy and manage
large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, scalable
cloud computing platform. CloudStack current supports the most
popular open source hypervisors VMware, Oracle VM, KVM, XenServer and Xen
Cloud Platform. CloudStack offers three ways to manage
cloud computing environments: a easy-to-use web interface, command line
and a full-featured restful API. OpenNebula.org: OpenNebula is an
open-source project aimed at building the industry standard open source
cloud computing tool to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of OpenStack: OpenStack is a
collaborative software project designed to create freely available code,
badly needed standards, and common ground for the benefit of both cloud
providers and cloud customers.
Fault
Tolerance Ganeti: Ganeti is a
cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing
virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source
software. It offers very easy management of systems with multiple
virtualization servers and deployment of instances on these. It includes
user transparent setup of mirrored disks for these nodes with DRBD,
running commands on all cluster nodes and distributing files on the
whole cluster. Remus (also see Remus Wiki): Transparent VM fault tolerance
SecondSite:
The SecondSite
project (now part of Remus) is exploring applications of virtualization in order to make
existing computer software highly available and disaster tolerant. Using
a highly optimized form of live migration, we continuously replicate the
memory image of a running virtual machine onto a second physical
computer. In the case of failure, this second computer can seamlessly
continue execution so fast that open network connections remain
functional. The major benefit of this approach is that applications and
operating systems don't have to be modified in order to benefit from HA
-- this sourse of complexity has been a major limitation in providing HA
and DR in existing systems.
Management
ConVirt Open
Source: ConVirt Open Source is the leading open
source product for managing Xen, enabling you to standardize and
proactively manage your virtualized environment in a centralized
fashion. Virtual High Performance
Computing Environment (VHPCE): The VHPCE core concept and
component is virtual cluster, the management unit is virtual cluster or
virtual node instead of physical node. Features includes customizing
virtual cluster, monitor virtual cluster, cluster template and the amigo
file system for CAS-style storage virtual cluster cross cluster. Xen Master:
Xen Master is an HTML5 based GUI with a capable Java backend built for Xen
and tailored to the average user. No longer do you need to know what a Xen
config file looks like or what `xm` entails. Managing Xen made easy with
no compromise. Note that Xen Master is under development and has
not yet been released. Xen Orchestra:
Simple management interface to Xen infrastructure. xnCORE Software Suite:
A suite of tools to manage and monitor Xen Dom0/DomUs. Zentific:
A graphical managemement system for Xen virtual environments.
We are not quite sure
which state the following projects are in as no home pages appear to be
avalable. Please contact the project owners:
Security
Isolated
Execution: Isolated Execution is a software reference
implementation of the security through isolation concept. Vyatta Core Software
(VC): The Vyatta open source network operating system is a
scalable, integrated, enterprise-class networking solution that delivers
advanced routing and network security functionality for physical,
virtual and cloud networking environments. The Vyatta network OS
includes dynamic routing, stateful firewall, VPN support, Intrusion
prevention and more in a package that is optimized to take advantage of
multicore x86 processing power, common virtualization platforms and
emerging cloud architectures. XenAccess: A user-space
library providing introspection for Xen. Introspection allows a
privileged domain to access memory and other data from domU domains at
useful abstraction levels.
Tools Domain
Technologie Control (DTC): DTC can take care of the
management of your VMs. It also does Network and CPU graphing for all
your VMs and allow your users to connect to it's VMs physical consoles
over ssh (LGPL) Parallax:
Conventional provisioning of virtual machines is hampered by the need to
create and populate volumes of storage. A more flexible storage system
is needed to support rapid virtual machine creation and state capture.
Parallax works by taking a single, cluster-available volume of storage
and accessing it though a block management layer. Our block management
layer is organized as a radix tree that enables dynamic block remapping.
Snowflock :
leverages virtual machine (VM) technology to enable high performance
computing on cloud environments. Cloud computing has the potential to
simplify the deployment of high performance applications by shifting the
significant fixed costs of provisioning and operating the data center to
a third party service provider, such as Amazon or Yahoo, who offers
computation and storage for rent as a metered commodity. VM execution
provides security, performance isolation, and the flexibility of running
in a programmer customized environment. xen-shell:
The Xen shell is a simple console application which allows you to easily
allow a user to control multiple Xen instances, without the overhead of
a web-based control panel. xen-tools: A set of tools
to ease and automated installation of Xen guest domains Xway: A module
for point2point inter-domain TCP/IP networking having high-performance
and low cpu-utilization(netfront - netfront)
Virtual Desktop
Solutions Qubes: Qubes is an open source
operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop
computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can
run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In
the future it might also run Windows apps.
Other ChromiumOS64:
Chromioum OS64 Project is an unofficial port of the orginial Google's
Chromium OS project (aka Google Chrome OS) to the x86_64 64 bit
architecture. This project also involves the creation of a Xen DomU
running this ported Chromium OS64. EmbeddedXEN:
EmbeddedXEN is an academic project and consists of a single multi-kernel
ARM-target binary image. Proof-of-concepts and performance evaluation in
the context of embedded virtualization are the primary objectives of
this project.
RT-XEN:
The RT-XEN project extends Xen, the most widely used open-source virtual
machine manager, to support real-time systems. RT-XEN uses hierarchical
scheduling theory to bridge the gap between virtualization and real-time
systems by introducing schedulers in Xen that are compatible with
schedulers in guest operating systems. RT-XEN represents a promising
step toward composable real-time systems by facilitating system
integration for real-time applications and can serve as an open-source
platform for evaluating hierarchical real-time scheduling algorithms in
the future.
Projects on
SourceForge You can also find Xen projects by searching
SourceForge (sorted by latest release). Note that an older list of
projects and when they were started is available here.
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