% Registration Testing the Xen Hypervisor and Linux Virtual % Machines % Paul Larson (pl@us.ibm.com) Xen is an interesting and useful technology that has made virtualization features normally found only in high-end systems more widely available. Such technology, however, demands stability, since all virtual machines running on a single system are dependent on its functioning properly. Our paper will focus on the methods we are employing to test Xen, and how it differs from normal Linux testing. We will also discuss the tests we are using and creating and the automation tools we are developing to allow testers and developers working on Xen to easily run automated tests.