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I recommend everyone using XenServer to move to XCP-ng [0]. They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions and add some great new features etc (

I recommend everyone using XenServer to move to XCP-ng [0]. They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions and add some great new features etc (like nfs4.1, ZFS etc.). They're from the same people behind Xen Orchestra (web-based console for XenServer) [1], and offer pro support like Citrix [2]. I was about to move off XenServer with the recent changes to licensing [3] (tl;dr they removed a bunch of features from the free edition), but XCP-ng has allowed me to continue with XenServer whilst make few changes to my already-working setup. [0] https://xcp-ng.org/ https://xcp-ng.org/ [1] https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xo-home https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xo-home [2] https://xcp-ng.com/ https://xcp-ng.com/ [3] https://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-7-3-changes-to-the-free-edition.html https://xenserver.org/blog/entry/xenserver-7-3-changes-to-th...

anonoholic 8y ago
> They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions Um, how exactly? You generally can't take software with licence X, and republish it with license Y...
- stordoff 8y ago
  I believe OP is referring to the feature restrictions that Citrix put on the free version, rather than changing the licence of the code.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
  I don't know about this case, but it's not that rare to see source code published under ex. Apache 2 while official binaries are proprietary or something (see ex. Caddy), in which case it's easy enough to just grab the source, enable all features, and distribute the result. Arguably similar to what AWS did with Elasticsearch recently.
Animats 8y ago
Oh, good. So Citrix doesn't get to make it effectively proprietary. Like Oracle and MySQL leading to MariaDB.
smcleod 8y ago
Absolutely agree, I migrated us from XenServer 7.2 to XCP-ng 7.6 without issue and the community has been great. https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/02/11/hello-xcp-ng.html https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/02/11/hello-xcp-ng.html

anonoholic 8y ago

> They take the XenServer sources, remove licensing restrictions Um, how exactly? You generally can't take software with licence X, and republish it with license Y...

stordoff 8y ago
I believe OP is referring to the feature restrictions that Citrix put on the free version, rather than changing the licence of the code.
yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
I don't know about this case, but it's not that rare to see source code published under ex. Apache 2 while official binaries are proprietary or something (see ex. Caddy), in which case it's easy enough to just grab the source, enable all features, and distribute the result. Arguably similar to what AWS did with Elasticsearch recently.

Animats 8y ago

Oh, good. So Citrix doesn't get to make it effectively proprietary. Like Oracle and MySQL leading to MariaDB.

smcleod 8y ago

Absolutely agree, I migrated us from XenServer 7.2 to XCP-ng 7.6 without issue and the community has been great. https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/02/11/hello-xcp-ng.html https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/02/11/hello-xcp-ng.html