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Joana Rutkowska and her team presented very interesting insights on Xen security, as well as attacks against it, at this years Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. In a trilogy of talks(“Xen 0wning trilogy”), they gave information about “Subverting the Xen Hypervisor”, “Detecting and preventing the Xen hypervisor subversions”
We have added a new project to the projects page: Ganeti Ganeti is a tool for the management of Virtualization clusters. It offers very easy management of systems with multiple virtualization servers and deployment of instances on these. It includes user-transparent setup of mirrored disks for these nodes with DRBD,
Just ran across a nice posting on the Georgia Tech project on Matt Asay’ “The Open Road” Blog. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10015925-16.html More info on this project on my previous blog posting at https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/08/08/new-project-xenaccess-library/.
The Clarkson University team is once again leading the efforts for a full day of Xen training at Lisa 2008; http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/.The full profile of the training is here: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/tutonefile.html#m1. Lisa event home page at
Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility. Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and
I have created a new page on the Xen Wiki where anyone wishing to post change requests to the Xen Documentation can do so: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. If anyone makes any of these changes, please update the Wiki so people know what has been completed and
I often receive emails asking about the documentation for Xen and wanting to see an upgrade, etc. The latest documentation that I am aware of is at this page: http://xen.org/xen/documentation.html The Xen 3.0 documentation is out of date, as I often get told, and
Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
Brandeis University has been leveraging Xen for the deployment of their PeopleSoft applications. Read about their solution in the newest Xen.org Case Study at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Xen+Brandeis+Case+Study.pdf.
I have posted a new project on the Xen.org Project page: XenAccess Library. Project Overview: When running multiple domains (or virtual machines) using the Xen hypervisor, this library will allow a privileged domain to view the runtime state of another domain. This technique is known as virtual machine introspection.
Pivot3 today announced a new solution for serverless computing based on open source Xen. You can learn more about their solution at http://www.pivot3.com/products/serverless-computing. Ian Pratt was quoted in their release: “Pivot3 has taken advantage of the openness and high performance of the Xen hypervisor