XEN-SHELL2

XEN-SHELL2 is a open source software for the management of Xen VM instances.

It provides a XEN guests / cloud management shell which provides secure, simple and easy (remote, multi-user, multi-level) console based access to Xen DomU management.

With its lightweight, console-based design it allows basic cloud management features at a very small footprint Dom0.

In a typical application, XEN-SHELL2 act's as a UNIX login console over Secure Shell (SSH).

Supported Architectures

XEN-SHELL2 runs under both official Xen Dom0 operating systems Linux and NetBSD.

History

XEN-SHELL2 is currently a project from Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat IT & Internet) and is a fork of XEN-SHELL (initially from Steve Kemps) which is not longer maintained and is incompatible to the interfaces of newer Xen versions. XEN-SHELL2 offers compatibility to the current Xen xl tool stack, which substituted the outdated xm / Xend stack in Xen4.

The software was initially forked in 2012 and - after a phase of beta and productive tests - republished 2015 at the public project website and GitHub.

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