This site provides a variety of downloads and howto’s to facilitate use of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor. Xen allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single piece of physical hardware. Here you will find Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.
The long overdue Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) image is here....
The Slackware image has been updated to 12.1
Both Debian 4 images have been re-revved to get the latest updates (4.0r3)
CentOS 5.2 and CentOS 5.2 64-bit have beed added.
Fedora 9 64-bit has beed added.
Fedora 9 has beed added. Check back for the 64-bit release soon.
The downloads on the site have been mirrored at Clarkson University. Please contact us if you wish to become a download mirror.
Debian 4.0 64-bit is now available....
After many requests the first 64-bit image has been uploaded. In addition to CentOS, 64-bit versions of Fedora 8 and Debian will be coming soon.
Update (Jan 20th): Fedora 8 64-bit is now available....
Added Fedora 8 which was released on November 8th. Here is the release announcement
Added CentOS 5.1. CentOS 5.1 was released on Dec 2nd. Here is the release announcement
Added Gentoo 2007.0.
Added Slackware 12.0.
Added Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty). Contributed by Tim Post. Thanks Tim!
Added Debian 4.0.
Added CentOS 5.0. CentOS 5 was released on Apr 12th. Here are the release notes from the CentOS project.
The Fedora Core 6 image has been brought up to date with yum. Speaking of FC6, most of the error reports we get come from people running the xen kernels bundled with FC6. Evidently many (most?) people running FC6 as their dom0 have a problem running the jailtime images out of the box. In an effort to mitigate this problem the new FC6 image has some workarounds that you can try if you are having problems running the image. There are further details on the download page
The Fedora Core 6 image has been re-revved. The tarball now contains config files for Xen 2 and 3. All packages have been brought up to date and the glibc tls issue has been resolved by telling the linker to use the nosegneg libraries (see Tweaks).
At this point all images on this site have been tested under Xen 2 and 3 and now include config files for both versions. With the recent glibc changes in the gentoo and fedora images all of the images are now free of any costly memory emulation.
Uploaded a new Slackware 11 image. This is the first step in re-revving all of the images such that they will run equally well under Xen 2 and 3. In the case of the Slack image this did not require any changes, however recent security fixes have been pulled in and a Xen 3 config file has been added to the tarball.
Update (Dec 21st): Debian 3.1 has been re-revved as well. The rest of the updated images will be under the Christmas tree hopefully.
Update (Dec 24th): CentOS 4.4 is done.
Update (Dec 28th): Gentoo 2006.1 has been re-revved. Unlike the last gentoo image, this one has had glibc recompiled to deal with the tls issue.
A jailtime visitor reported a problem with the pam package in the recently uploaded fc6 image. If you are using this image please reinstall pam-0.99.6.2-3.fc6.i386.rpm. Download the rpm from one of the fc6 repositories and run: rpm –force -i pam-0.99.6.2-3.fc6.i386.rpm
A new fc6 image has been uploaded with this fix and also incorporates updates from the fedora team since the initial release two weeks ago. The new image has been compressed with bzip2 instead of the usual gzip in an effort to cut down on bandwidth consumption.
The Fedora project release Core 6 last week (Release Notes). Here is the image.
Angel de Vicente has written an excellent tutorial at ClusterMonkey.net about implementing a virtual cluster with Xen. In addition, he has contributed a tarball to this site containing the images needed to get started: Clustering Xen
Patrick Volkerding and Co. released Slackware 11.0 earlier this week. Here is the announcement.
Gentoo 2006.1 is now available.
Just added CentOS 4.4 to the roster, which was released on August 30th. CentOS 4.3 is still available.
On Sept 1st Debian 3.1r3 was released, fixing some security issues and updating some base packages (News release). The jailtime image now incorporates these changes.
The Gentoo 2006.0 image is now available.
The recently released Fedora Core 5 has been added to the downloads section. Fedora Core 5
CentOS 4.3 was released this week. You can get the updated image here: CentOS 4.3. The old version is still available. The 4.2 → 4.3 upgrade process is the same as the 4.1 → 4.2 process as described here: Upgrading Images
All of the images with the exception of Gentoo have been brought up-to-date using their respective package management tools.
The Gentoo 2005.0 image has been upgraded to 2005.1. Actually, the previous image was a hybrid 2005.1 with some masked packages from 2005.0 (glibc and base-layout). It appears the latest versions of these two packages are finally Xen compatible out of the box. This means that Gentoo 2005.1 can run as a Xen guest with virtually no tweaks – good work Gentoo people!
CentOS 4.2 was released last week. You can get the updated image here: CentOS 4.2. The old version is still available.
If you have been running the 4.1 image for a while and wish to upgrade it, please read Upgrading Images.
Added CentOS 4.1.
Added Fedora Core 4. Please give it a whirl and report back.
Added the newly released Slackware 10.2. Removed the sidebar link to Slackware 10.1, but the older version is still available.
Added the links page. If you don’t find what you are looking for on this site, try http://xen-get.org. Or email the address below with requests.
Site goes live. Initial downloads are Debian 3.1, Slackware 10.1 and Gentoo.