Index Guide

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== Navigation and Top Level Indexes ==
Our wiki categorizes pages strictly. This means, that you can use categories to navigate through content. Note that ...
* Our category pages are not normally just indexes, but frequently have a hand-edited header, which highlight important information. 
* All documents are in one of these three categories: this makes it possible to browse
* These categories are exposed in the sidebar
* Note that these categories can be rather big!
=== Audience ===
* Beginners of Xen Project, XAPI, etc.
* Users of Xen Project, XAPI, etc.
* Developers of Xen Project, XAPI, etc.
* Project (for project teams; general project info)
* Community (general community documents)
=== Document Type ===
* Manuals contains official Xen Project documentation
* ManPage contains This section contains link to Xen Project manual pages that are generated from the Xen Project codebase
* Overviews contains overview documents
* FAQs contains Xen Project, XAPI, ... FAQs sorted by topic
* HowTos contains Xen Project, XAPI, ... How To documents
* Tutorials contains Xen Project, XAPI, ... tutorials
* Example contains Xen Project, XAPI, ... examples
* Compatibility contains information on compatibility
* Glossary pages and definitions
* Index Pages are lists of pages that are not categories
=== Technology ===
Hypervisor and Linux:
* Xen Hypervisor - All Xen Project Hypervisor docs (not yet manually maintained)
* Xen ARM - All Xen Project ARM docs
* PVOPS (Xen in Linux) - All PVOPS docs
Drivers:
* Drivers - Pages related to Linux, Windows and other drivers
Unikernels:
* Unikernels - Information related to various unikernels
* Unikraft - Unikraft is an SDK for building unikernels
* MiniOS - MiniOS is a minimal operating system used in a Xen stack. It is also often used in the context of unikernels
* Mirage - Mirage OS is a unikernel
Toolstacks:
* Libvirt - All libvirt docs
* XAPI - All XAPI docs
== Indexes for Specific Uses ==
=== Release Related ===
* :Category:Release Notes contain Xen release notes
* :Category:Xen 4.4 contain articles related to Xen 4.4 features, benchmarks, planning, etc.
=== Installation Related ===
* :Category:Host Install contains documents related to installing Xen Project software on a host 
* :Category:Guest Install contains Documents related to installing guests on a Xen Project hypervisor
* :Category:Host Configuration contains documents related to bootloader, console and network configuration
=== Linux/Unix Distribution Related ===
Categories related to Linux/Unix distro. Typically contain tutorials, install info, etc. for a specific distro.
* :Category:Arch Linux
* :Category:Alpine Linux
* :Category:CentOS
* :Category:Debian
* :Category:Fedora
* :Category:FreeBSD
* :Category:Finnix
* :Category:Gentoo
* :Category:NetBSD
* :Category:Oracle Linux
* :Category:OpenBSD
* :Category:OpenEmbedded
* :Category:OpenIndiana
* :Category:OpenSuSE
* :Category:RHEL
* :Category:Solaris
* :Category:Yocto
* :Category:Ubuntu
=== Cloud Related ===
Categories related to Xen Project integration with cloud stacks
* :Category:CloudStack
* :Category:OpenStack
* :Category:Integration
* :Category:Unikernels
=== Technology Related (Networking, Performance, Security, NUMA, VGA, ...) ===
Specialist topics on Xen Project software:
* :Category:Networking contains articles related to networking 
* :Category:NUMA contains all articles related to the running (or to improving the support for doing so) of the Xen Project Hypervisor on NUMA architectures 
* :Category:Performance contains documents, tuning instructions and benchmarks related to the performance of Xen Project, etc. 
* :Category:Security contains documents related to Xen Project, etc. security 
* :Category:VGA contains documents related to VGA, VTd, GPY passthrough, etc.
* :Category:XCI contains documents related to XCI aka the Xen Client Initiative
=== Development Related ===
These contain categories for developers:
* :Category:Development Process describes development processes, governance, etc..
* :Category:Design Document contains design documents, architecture descriptions, and so on: in short it contains documents that describe how parts of the codebase work. Documents in this category are mainly relevant for developers.
* :Category:OCaml related to the OCaml language, in which most of XAPI is implemented.
=== Community Related ===
* :Category:GSoC contains documents related to Google Summer of Code
* :Category:Events contains information related to events
== Contributing to the Wiki ==
* Help:Contents Wiki help
* :Category:Templates description of frequently used templates
* :Category:Wiki Management contains documents related to managing the Xen Wiki
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