Talk:Xen/Archive 2016

Circular definition

§ Types of virtualization reads, in full (bolding added):

EditXen supports five different approaches to running the guest operating system: HVM (hardware virtual machine), HVM with PV drivers, PVHVM (HVM with PVHVM drivers), PVH (PV in an HVM container) and PV (paravirtualization).

Nowhere else does the page mention PVHVM. Does it stand for (I slowly work out possible pieces of the initialism)

paravirtualization hardware virtual machine (paravirtualization in a hardware virtual machine container)

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Dsimic added all the parenthesized text, with the edit summary "Tried to add some kind of descriptions". Good try, but if "PV" stands for the same thing each time, it belongs at or near the top of the list, to define it before using it.

--Thnidu (talk) 19:15, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Open Source XenServer is now completely open source, starting from this year.

Citrix called me the other day to tell me that XenServer is now free, so all the paid features are now free because it's now fully open-source. But I read on here that it started in 2009, that should not be correct, unless you mean only the free version upto today (June 20, 2013)

-Miguel Rodriguez - Miguemely (talk) 13:52, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, XenServer is now OSS from June 25, but Xen Cloud Platform was OSS from the beginning and it was an almost feature complete version of XenServer. 37.75.126.121 (talk) 20:30, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Simply, XenServer is a Citrix product based on Xen. Xen is not XenServer, Xen was not created by Citrix, Xen is not owned by Citrix, and Xen has always been open source. 1.129.96.81 (talk) 00:01, 15 September 2016 (UTC)