Citrix recently released a new open source tool to simplify virtual machines migration from the open source Xen hypervisor to its open source implementation XenServer and the upcoming Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) . The virtual to virtual (V2V) migration utility is written in Python and can either perform an offline conversion of a Xen VM into that XVA format that XenServer and XCP understand, or live streaming the VM to the two target platforms. The tool supports both para-virtualized and hardware-virtualisation-assisted (HVM) virtual machines but it still is in its early stage and Citrix warns about issues and bugs .

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