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Xenia is what the Xen hypervisor is named after.


Almost! :-)

I coined the term "Xenoserver" back in 1999, for a paper in IEEE HotOS proposing an architecture for allowing systems in core networks to safely accept and execute code from untrusted users (for a fee, of course!): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/1999-hoto...

I was inspired by the word "xenos" (meaning both stranger and guest, or in combination a stranger who you invited into your home) rather than the word "xenia" for the general concept of hospitality extended to such a stranger [EDIT: since I wasn't familiar with the word "xenia"].

The Xenoserver project at Cambridge University developed this idea, and eventually focused around the hypervisor, which took on the name Xen.


Wow, HN is amazing. Thank you for the correction, the additional context, and your contributions to the field!




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