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Welcome to the Xen4CentOS6 Project : First Release
06/20/2013
CES

The Xen4CentOS6 project is a collaborative effort between the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen development teams, the CentOS Project team, GoDaddy Cloud operations group and RackSpace Hosting to package, deliver and maintain a stable Xen hypervisor and its related tooling for CentOS-6, enabling CentOS-6/x86_64 to be used as

Xen 4.3.0-RC1 is out!
05/08/2013

We proudly announce that the Xen 4.3 RC-cycle has just started, with the tagging of 4.3.0-rc1 in our repository. Read the official announcement from George on xen-devel here. A tarball has been made available for ease and speed-up testing: Xen 4.3.0 RC1 Tarball (andÂ

Using xen-tools on Fedora
01/24/2013

Xen.org blog already hosted a very nice post by Ian Jackson, greatly explaining how useful xen-tools is for automatically installing Debian (and Debian-derived) VMs. Now, if this all happens on a Debian host, it is nice and easy, as getting xen-tools is just a matter of apt-get install-ing it.

Xen ARM in Linux!
10/08/2012

Last weekend Linus Torvalds pulled the Xen on ARM patches in his Linux tree, so as of Saturday the 7th of October, we have Xen ARM in upstream Linux! This makes Xen the first hypervisor supported by Linux on the ARM platform! Working on ARM has been a very pleasant

XenSummit Videos: Xen & Apache CloudStack, Xen & OpenStack
09/29/2012
CES

This is another post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering Xen integrations with Apache Cloudstack and OpenStack: * Xen and CloudStack: Ewan Mellor describes the CloudStack project and explains why Xen is the pre-eminent hypervisor in public clouds today. He describes the

XenSummit Sessions: New PVH virtualisation mode for ARM Cortex A15/ARM Servers and x86
09/21/2012
CES

This is the second blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering seemingly unrelated topics – but you will realize they are not unrelated: * The new PV in an HVM container virtualization mode (or PVH) proposed and developed by Mukesh Rathor, Oracle:

Xen 4.2.0 Released
09/17/2012
CES

Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. The release is available from the download page: * Xen Hypervisor 4.2.0: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.2.0) This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of

XenSummit Project Update Presentations and Videos
09/14/2012
CES

This will be the first blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week we will cover project roadmap and futures presentations. Note that you can download all presentations in a zip file. Sexy World of the Linux pvops project Also see: * Presentation Xen Cloud Platform

Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions progress.
08/15/2012
CES

There’s been a lot of good progress in the Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions port since I first blogged about it here. Thanks to some recent work, mainly by Stefano Stabellini, we are now able to start our first guest domain, including paravirtual console disk and network devices!

The Intel SYSRET privilege escalation
06/13/2012

The Xen Security team recently disclosed a vulnerability, Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217), which would allow guest administrators to escalate to hypervisor-level privileges. The impact is much wider than Xen; many other operating systems seem to have the same vulnerability, including NetBSD, FreeBSD, some versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows

Video: Intro to Virtualization, Xen, XCP, and the Cloud
05/30/2012

This is a guest blog post by Patrick F. Wilbur, a long-time Xen user and active member of the Xen community. You might know me from Xen Day and Xen training events in the past, or perhaps from the Running Xen book. I recently taught a lesson in an operating

Oracle hosted Xen Hackathon
01/05/2012

I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by Oracle and takes place March 6-8, 2012 at the Oracle Campus in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you want to attend, save the date and add yourself to the wiki. I wanted to thank Oracle