Documentation

News Sources

• Xen Project Home page aggregates selected news stories
• The Xen Project Blog is covers technical and community related stories
• xen-announce mailing list is a low frequency mailing list for important announcements

Documentation

• Documentation for projects hosted on xenproject.org is available on the Xen Project Wiki.   Our wiki is active and community maintained. It contains a lot of useful information and uses categories extensively to make it easy to find information.  Good places to get started are:      
  • Xen Project Overview
  • Getting Started
  • The Manual Category
  • The Xen Project Manual pages
  • The Beginners Category
  • The Users Category

Raising Bugs

• How to raise bugs

Search Xen Project Mailing Lists:

All Xen Project mailing lists are archived using the MarkMail system at xen.markmail.org.

Search MarkMail from XenProject.org Site: (not secure)

Often you will find an answer for a question by searching here!

Xen Project Wiki

• Main Page (category based)
• Alternative Main Page (use-case based)
• Browse the Wiki by Audience:
  • Docs for Beginners
  • Docs for Users
  • Docs for Developers
• Browse the Wiki by Document Type:
  • Overviews
  • FAQs
  • HowTos
  • Tutorials
• Searching the wiki:

When searching the wiki you need to be aware of     

• Searching foo followed by Search will search document bodies.
• Searching foo followed by a return or Go will usually only search document titles.

IRC Channels

• Get started with IRC
• IRC - Freenode:
  • ##xen : our user channel for Xen
  • #xen-api : our user channel for XCP
  • #xendocs : our user channel for docs

Where is the XenServer Information?

Many people are confused about the relationship between Xen Project and XenServer. XenServer is a distribution of Xen Project the same way that Ubuntu or SUSE are distributions of Linux. If you need XenServer information, you will do best by starting with one of the XenServer support channels described at XenServer.org.