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Key deadlines are at your doorstep; Sign up now to participate! With so many people returning from well-earned vacations, we want to remind you to act quickly to take advantage of the upcoming Summit meetings. Xen Project User Summit is Less Than Two Weeks Away! Register now to join the
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One of the stated goals for 2013 and 2014 of the Xen Project Advisory Board is to Increase upstream Xen Hypervisor quality including the quality of its latest CPU and Platform features and to address problems with the code in a timely and proactive manner, including defects, security vulnerabilities and
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I’ve recently returned from Debconf 13, in Vaumarcus in Switzerland. My colleague Ian Campbell joined me there. Debconf is the annual conference for contributors to Debian, with a few hundred attendees. There’s a fairly standard conference format with a programme of talks and BoF sessions, but the best
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If you are testing Xen in your environment, you probably already have images native to other hypervisors which you might like to test. So a common question is, “How can I convert these images so I can use them in Xen?” Conversion requires two steps: first, convert the foreign
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The following monologue explains how Linux drivers are able to program a device when running in a Xen virtual machine on ARM. The problem that needs to be solved is that Xen on ARM guests run with second stage translation in hardware enabled. That means that what the Linux kernel
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Some time ago Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (the Xen Linux maintainer) came up with a list of possible improvements to the Xen PV block protocol, which is used by Xen guests to reduce the overhead of emulated disks. This document is quite long, and the list of possible improvements is also
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This is a joint blog post by Anil Madhavapeddy and Lars Kurth Xen Project As in previous years, the Xen Project had a presence at OSCON again. This year, we did not have our own booth: Citrix donated some space to a number of different open source projects in their
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My name is Julien Grall.  I joined the Citrix Open Source team few months ago to work on Xen on ARM with Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini. Since Citrix has joined the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG), I’m also part of the virtualization team which takes care of Xen,
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ARM server support and new security, performance and scalability updates headline the Xen Project 4.3 release SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2013 – The Xen Project, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the availability of Xen Project hypervisor version 4.3. The Xen Project powers more than
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Lightweight Mirage OS maximizes features for secure, cost-effective and high-performance cloud and mobile services SAN FRANCISCO, December 9, 2013 – The Xen Project, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the first release of Mirage OS. Mirage OS v1.0 is a unikernel for constructing secure, cost-effective and
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Xenproject.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.0. The release is available from the download page: * Xen 4.3.0: Download, Source (tag RELEASE-4.3.0), release notes. Xen 4.3 is the work of just over 9 months of development, with 1362 changesets containing
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As many of you might have (inevitably) noticed, Xen frontend / backend network drivers in Linux suffered from regression several months back after the XSA-39 fix (various reports here, here and here). Fortunately that’s now fixed (see the most important patch of that series) and the back-porting process to stable