Announcements
One of Xen Project’s highest priorities is to continually work to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. We’re serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and, whenever possible, eliminating any adverse effects from defects, security vulnerabilities or performance problems. Our users run some of
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Born in the logic of ones and zeroes and forged in the heat of battle, two hypervisors–sworn foes in the realm of virtualization–are about to unite in a way many never thought possible. Over beer and code. Join the teams behind Xen Project Developer Summit and KVM Forum
Releases
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.4 and Xen 4.4.2. Both releases are available immediately from their git repositories and download pages (see below). We recommend to all users of the 4.3 and 4.4 stable series to update to these latest
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This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (formerly known as OPW/Outreach program for Women). Outreachy is the successor of the Outreach Program for Women. Please see its page for the information about the May 2015 round of interships. Outreach Program for Women
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With several companies introducing ARM servers recently, cloud providers and enterprise datacenters are excited to see new alternatives for reducing costs and power use come to market. Cavium, a semiconductor leader with a long heritage in security and wireless/ networking, entered the race with the introduction of ThunderXâ„¢ the industryâ€
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Recent Changes Let Xen Project Work Out of the Box in OpenStack Members of the Xen Project development team have always believed that the hypervisor must be available for integration into other Open Source projects. In particular, the initiators of the Xen Project envisioned the day when compute resources
Events
I am pleased to announce the next Xen Project Hackathon to be held this spring. Â Although we call it a Hackathon, the event consists of several parallel sessions in which Xen Project developers will create, discuss and review designs and changes that impact Xen’s architecture. We’ll perform
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Before Christmas, the Xen Project ran a community consultation to refine its Security Problem Response Process.  We recently approved changes that, in essence, are tweaks to our existing process, which is based on a Responsible Disclosure philosophy. Responsible Disclosure and our Security Problem Response Process are important components
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With Xen Project 4.5 released in January, we are now one month into 4.6 development window! My name is Wei Liu and I have been working on various areas in the Xen Project community, including Linux kernel, hypervisor, QEMU and toolstack. Now I’m a co-maintainer of Xen
California Gets Four Opportunities in Four Days at Three Conferences to Hear About Xen Project February 19-22, 2015 has an assortment of great Xen Project talks. Folks in Santa Rosa, CA at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit have two great talks: * Lessons Learned from the Xen Project Security Response Process:
HowTo
One of the challenges of using Xen in embedded environments is the need for core components to meet critical timing requirements. In traditional implementations engineers use real-time operating systems (RTOS) to ensure, for example, that an automobile’s brakes engage within a reasonable amount of time after the driver presses
Events
Going to FOSDEM’15? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. Here they are the talks, in some more details: * OpenStack and Xen: Deploy your OpenStack cloud on the Xen hypervisor