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The Future of XCP-ng and Where Virtualization Is Headed

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the past and present of the XCP-ng project, a turnkey open source hypervisor. In this post, we will look at its future and also discuss what more needs to be done in the field of virtualization.

Vates’ first inroads in the field of virtualization were done a few years before the development of XCP-ng, with the development of Xen Orchestra.

It handles the management and backup needs for XCP-ng; and for several years prior to the development of XCP-ng, it handled Citrix XenServer hypervisors as well.

Beyond these types of improvements, porting Xen and XCP-ng to new, promising and yet still “exotic” architectures — such as RISC-V or OpenPOWER — is an important topic.