This document has been updated since it was published! Updates are marked in blue. On January 3rd, 2018, Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users
Spectre
Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the
Ian Pratt recently was on stage during the keynote sessions at Citrix Synergy showing the current implementation of the Type 1 Xen client hypervisor running on a PC and Mac. He did the demonstrations with Patrick Gelsinger from Intel. The complete 45 minute Intel presentation is at http://www.citrix.
Xen Community: The next XCI project meeting is tomorrow at 1:30 pm EST. I will be taking minutes of this meeting and posting at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor. Agenda * Experiences with the http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient build * PV USB implementations and API * Open
Meeting Information – April 29, 2009 XCI Team – We are going to restart the meetings for this project… Agenda: * Experiences with the http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient build * PV USB implementations and API * Open Discussion I will be taking minutes on this meeting and posting at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf. Dial-in information: 1.888.371.8921
The next XCI Project meeting is set for August 12, 2008 from 1 – 2pm EST. Please send me an email if you are interested in joining in. The agenda for this meeting is not yet setup but I will update this blog posting with the agenda in a few days.