I often get asked about running hypervisors from portable storage devices and in this column, I'd like to talk about a method for installing and running XenServer 4.1 from a portable USB hard drive.

Citrix XenServer is a commercial implementation of the open source Xen virtualization solution. Citrix has extended the base Xen engine with management tools and tightened up various components ...

With the free Citrix XenServer virtualization platform, it's easy to create a highly available virtual server cluster; here's how High availability used to be expensive, requiring both specialized ...

“Project Boston,” the current beta version of Citrix’s XenServer 6, includes a host of new features that make the virtualization platform worthy of consideration in modest-size organizations. Project ...

XenServer’s hardware support was second only to that in Novell’s Xen implementation, which has a slight advantage because it runs on any hardware supported by the Novell SLES 10 Linux distribution.

The software comes on two CDs and installation is straightforward. Indeed, a bare install takes just a few minutes; and if, like us, you're already running a previous version of XenServer, it can be ...

The irony here is that I had a migration to KVM by way of VMWare Converter planned for NEXT FREAKING WEEK... sigh. Read on: I have a XenServer 5.5 which lived on hardware that decided it hated me - as ...

I often get asked about running hypervisors from portable storage devices and in this column, I'd like to talk about a method for installing and running XenServer 4.1 from a portable USB hard drive.