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Xen Orchestra vs Feathers: What are the differences?
What is Xen Orchestra? The Web Interface for XenServer. It provides a web based UI for the management of XenServer installations without requiring any agent or extra software on your hosts nor VMs.
What is Feathers? Open source user interface components for Starling Framework. Build mobile & desktop games and apps with fully-skinnable UI controls. It aims for buttery smooth performance based on the philosophy that cross-platform UI kits shouldn't sacrifice one of the most important benefits of native development.
Xen Orchestra can be classified as a tool in the "Virtual Machine Management" category, while Feathers is grouped under "UI Components".
Some of the features offered by Xen Orchestra are:
- Xen management
- Easy-to-use
- Fast
On the other hand, Feathers provides the following key features:
- Cross-platform GUIs
- Customizable skins and styles
- Free and open source
Xen Orchestra and Feathers are both open source tools. It seems that Feathers with 945 GitHub stars and 406 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Xen Orchestra with 235 GitHub stars and 89 GitHub forks.