FOSDEM Here We Come!

It’s that time of the year again – FOSDEM is coming to Brussels February 4 – 5 and the Xen Project team will be attending again.
We’ll be at a booth with Citrix, Oracle, both Xen Project members, and Vates. Xen Orchestra, which offers a complete web UI for controlling a XenServer and Xen infrastructure, will be demoed at the booth. You can find us in section K, level 1, group C, booth 5 or to make it easier between TOR/TAILS and OpenStack.
If you want to learn more about Xen Project technology, FOSS licenses and unikernels, then we recommend you come by the booth and/or head to the following presentations:
Live patching the Xen Project hypervisor
*Happening Saturday from 11:30 – 11:55
Live patching is the process of updating software while it is running, i.e. no more reboots. This type of technology is particularly important for cloud providers who need to keep themselves up and running 24/7. This talk covers everything from the design and implementation of live patching for Xen Project software to how it differs from live patching for Linux.
Mixed License FOSS Projects
*Happening Saturday from 11:35 – 12:20
Many projects start out with the intention of staying a single license FOSS project, but as your project grows there are some different licenses that you may not have anticipated. This talk will explore unintended consequences, risks and best practices through Xen Project examples on license issues. If you are an open source project that is growing fast, this is definitely a talk you don’t want to miss.
Adventures in Building Unikernel Clouds
*Happening Saturday from 14:45 to 15:25
Unikernels are a great approach to building the next generation of cloud infrastructure – they are performant and have a small attack surface. Even though the concept of a unikernel is not new, there has not been a ton of work done in building them for the infrastructure today. This talk provides a deep dive into the various layers of infrastructure that one needs to build out their own infrastructure of unikernels.
Towards a HVM-like Dom0 for Xen: Reducing the OS burden while taking advantage of new hardware features
*Happening Saturday from 18:45 to 19:00
Xen Project hypervisor uses a microkernel design that allows multiple concurrent operating systems to run on the same hardware. One of the key features of Xen Project software is that it is OS agnostic, meaning that any OS (with proper support) can be used as a host. This talk provides an overview on the different kind of guests supported by Xen Project software and how these new hardware features are used in order to improve and evolve them. It also describes the design and implementation of a new guest type, called PVHv2, and how it can be used as a control domain (Dom0).
We look forward to seeing you there. For those who can’t attend, follow our Twitter feed for FOSDEM updates and to stay up-to-date  on what’s happening with the project.