About XCP-ng
🌱 The origin​
XCP-ng stands as more than a mere product-it's a dynamic project fostered by an engaged community. Originating from the free Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and its commercial counterpart, Citrix XenServer, the landscape shifted when Citrix made XenServer open source, leading to the discontinuation of XCP.
However, Citrix's decision to strip several features from the free version of XenServer post-7.3 inspired project founder Olivier Lambert. Aiming to revive the essence of XCP, he initiated "XCP New Generation" or XCP-ng, aspiring to create an unrestricted, community-driven, open source hypervisor, mirroring XenServer's functionality without any feature limitations.
XCP-ng was conceived as a friendly fork of XenServer, characterized by an approach that seeks to keep changes to a minimum. Our philosophy is to contribute back to the upstream for all components wherever feasible, maintaining a collaborative and synergistic relationship with the original source.
You can now read more details about the origin of the project on Wikipedia!
💬 Community​
Most of the community is on XCP-ng Forum. Feel free go there and ask anything! We also have a Discord server for live chat, or even on Reddit (however, the forum is the most active place).
You can also find us on many social networks:
📜 History of XCP-ng​
Here is a video recorded at FOSDEM19: