XenServer 6.2 released, going fully open source

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Tue Jun 25 14:19:07 UTC 2013


Looks like Citrix finally got their lawyers to sign off on it --
XenServer is now fully open source. XCP will go away and users will be
upgrading to XenServer 6.2.

http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/25/xenserver-org-and-the-xen-project/


I have not yet tested XenServer 6.2 to see if it resolves the
"unable-to-boot-with-cdrom-on-FreeBSD-guest" bug yet, but I've heard the
upgrade path will definitely require you jump from XCP 1.6 to XenServer
6.2, so anyone stuck on XCP 1.5beta will have to remove their virtual
cdrom drives before attempting the upgrade process.

Also, it looks like XenCenter is being released under a BSD-like
license. Hopefully someone gets this ported to *nix soon

http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/25/xenserver-org-and-the-xen-project/


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