XCP-ng celebrates six-figure download milestone
(2020/04/20)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/20/xcpng_100000_download_milestone_and_future_plans/
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XCP-ng, the crowdfunded effort to deliver an [1]open-source version of XenServer , has passed the 100,000-download mark.
Founder Olivier Lambert has [2]described the milestone as “only the beginning but it's a symbolic level, and it tells a lot about how many people have been convinced to use XCP-ng!”
And not just people: in January 2020 the Xen Project [3]adopted XCP-ng as an incubation project . Xena advisory board chair George Dunlap likened the decision to do so as akin to RedHat teaming up with CentOS – it may look like internal competition but having two projects with the same goal in proximity is mutually beneficial.
Lambert’s post also outlines future work on the project including:
Deeper Ceph and ZFS integration in XCP-ng;
VM secure boot and also XCP-ng Secure boot on the hardware, to get a complete chain of trust;
A possible port to RISC-V;
Ongoing work on hyperconverged iteration XOSANv2, and hints of XOSANv3;
Ongoing work with hardware vendors and hosting providers to ensure they are XCP-ng friendly.
Lambert writes that he’s “working hard to bring my initial vision to everyone: providing a powerful, fully Open Source AND easy to use virtualization platform to the masses.” ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/16/xenserver_open_source_fork_xcp_ng/
[2] https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/04/17/100-000-downloads-for-xcp-ng/
[3] https://xenproject.org/2020/01/28/xcp-ng-joins-the-xen-project-as-an-incubation-project/
[4] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8552/how-to-accelerate-brilliant-digital-experiences-with-low-code?td=wptl1936
Founder Olivier Lambert has [2]described the milestone as “only the beginning but it's a symbolic level, and it tells a lot about how many people have been convinced to use XCP-ng!”
And not just people: in January 2020 the Xen Project [3]adopted XCP-ng as an incubation project . Xena advisory board chair George Dunlap likened the decision to do so as akin to RedHat teaming up with CentOS – it may look like internal competition but having two projects with the same goal in proximity is mutually beneficial.
Lambert’s post also outlines future work on the project including:
Deeper Ceph and ZFS integration in XCP-ng;
VM secure boot and also XCP-ng Secure boot on the hardware, to get a complete chain of trust;
A possible port to RISC-V;
Ongoing work on hyperconverged iteration XOSANv2, and hints of XOSANv3;
Ongoing work with hardware vendors and hosting providers to ensure they are XCP-ng friendly.
Lambert writes that he’s “working hard to bring my initial vision to everyone: providing a powerful, fully Open Source AND easy to use virtualization platform to the masses.” ®
Sponsored: [4]How To Accelerate Brilliant Digital Experiences With Low-Code
[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/16/xenserver_open_source_fork_xcp_ng/
[2] https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/04/17/100-000-downloads-for-xcp-ng/
[3] https://xenproject.org/2020/01/28/xcp-ng-joins-the-xen-project-as-an-incubation-project/
[4] https://go.theregister.co.uk/tl/1936/-8552/how-to-accelerate-brilliant-digital-experiences-with-low-code?td=wptl1936