Projects

Virtual Machine Manager

The "Virtual Machine Manager" application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains and their live performance & resource utilization statistics. A detailed view presents graphs showing ... [More] performance & utilization over time. Ultimately it will allow creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain's resource allocation & virtual hardware. Finally an embedded VNC client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain. [Less]

abiCloud

abiCloud is an open source cloud computing platform manager. It allows to quickly create a private cloud inside an organization's firewall, and manage it with a rich user interface. Next version will allow to also deploy images in external clouds, creating an hybrid environment.

Enomalism

Enomalism is an open source web-based virtual infrastructure platform. Designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to automate the transition to a virtualized environment by reducing an IT organizations overall workload. The easy to ... [More] use dashboard can help with issues including deployment planning, load balancing, automatic VM migration, configuration management, and capacity diagnosis. Enomalism virtual infrastructure is a dynamic mapping of physical resources to business needs. While a virtual machine represents the physical resources of a single computer, a virtual infrastructure represents the physical resources of the entire IT environment (Data Center). [Less]

openQRM

openQRM is an open source systems management platform that automates both the virtual and physical assets with enterprise data centers. Why should I care? openQRM significantly minimizes downtime for IT infrastructure and business applications, reduces annual management costs for complex data ... [More] centers, and increases server utilization. In other words, it helps system administrators sleep better! [Less]

nexgent

Nexgent is a nagios like daemon that runs on paravirtualized Xen guests. Vital information such as loads, iowait, memory usage and disk usage are exported to the privileged domain via Xenbus. The privileged domain can then establish inotify like watches on guest values, enabling the privileged ... [More] domain to take action on events (such as loads getting too high, memory being exhausted or a disk filling up). This program is not yet release quality, but soon will be. [Less]

ConVirt

ConVirt is an intuitive, graphical management tool providing comprehensive life cycle management for Virtual Machines.

Karesansui

Server management software for virtualized servers with web-based user interface which supports Xen at now.

xenaccess

XenAccess LibraryOverviewWhen running multiple domains (or virtual machines) using the Xen hypervisor, this library will allow a privileged domain to view the runtime state of another domain. This technique is known as virtual machine introspection. The current software focuses on memory access, but ... [More] also provides proof-of-concept code for disk monitoring. News5 Jan 2009: XenAccess version 0.5 is now available! This release includes greatly improved support for Windows domains, support for newer versions of Xen, lots of bug fixes, support for viewing raw memory files, a new tools directory with adapters for Python and Volatility, updated documentation, and much more. You can download this release using the link on the right side of this page. 13 Aug 2008: Help wanted! The XenAccess project is looking for motivated developers interested in helping to implement new features and improve compatibility across various Xen versions. Knowledge in C is critical, and experience with Xen and open source projects would be useful too. Together, we can make XenAccess a true open source alternative to VMsafe! In you're interested, contact Bryan Payne. 17 Apr 2008: The project has moved to Google, instead of SourceForge. Over the course of the next few days, we will be completing the migration including moving the mailing list to Google Groups. Hopefully things didn't break too much in the move, but let us know if you find a problem. Xen CompatibilityThe XenAccess code base requires knowledge of address translations (e.g., between physical and machine addresses) in order to work properly. Occasionally, Xen makes changes to how these translations are done or to other details that we rely on. To see if XenAccess is known to work with a particular version of Xen, refer to CompatibleXenVersions, a user maintained wiki page. Future DirectionsThe current version of XenAccess provides for memory access between two Linux virtual machines. This is only the first step! Below is a listing (in no particular order) of the features and capabilities that will find their way into XenAccess in the future. If you're a developer and would like to help with this project, this list is a great starting point. Full support for newer versions of Xen Create higher level abstractions (e.g., easier access to memory) Automatic detection of symbol locations Background Info & LinksXenAccess Paper(pdf) Our ACSAC 2007 paper. This is the paper to cite if you use XenAccess for your research project(s). Virtual Machine Introspection Paper(pdf) Building an IDS with introspection. Copilot Paper(pdf) Similar technique using a coprocessor instead of a virtual machine. Xen Project A setup with the Xen hypervisor is required to use this library. Related Media and Blog PostsMcAfee white paper on virtualization security Xen.Org Launches Community Project To Bring VM Introspection to Xen Making Xen virtualization safer with XenAccess Xen Gets "Safe" An open source project may bring VMsafe capabilities to Xen XenAccess Projects Gets Wider Promotion VMSafe for Xen? New Project: XenAccess Library Contact InformationFor questions about XenAccess, bug reports, and other related discussion please use the mailing list. For all other matters please contact the project maintainer, Bryan Payne. [Less]

xebek

Xebek is a Xen-based honeypot monitoring system. Xebek exploits the advantage introduced by Xen to make it more stealthy to the intruder. Xen is a modern Virtual Machine monitor developped by Cambridge people and open-source community