The annual Xen Project Developer and Design Summit 2023 will be held 24-26 June. It will be a hybrid event, with the physical location in Prague, Czech Republic, co-located with…
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New version includes adoption of MISRA-C rules, static allocation and at-boot partitioning, with improved device throughput SAN FRANCISCO – December 14, 2022 –The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted…
MirageOS core maintainers and the Linux Foundation announced the release of MirageOS version 4.0, the latest update since version 3.10 in December, 2020. SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2022 — The MirageOS…
Due to circumstances, all Xen subprojects have now moved their IRC channels off of Freenode. The following channels have been moved to OFTC: #xendevel, #xen, #xeninfra #xcp-ng, #xcp-ng-dev. #mirage has…
This post originally appeared on VM Blog. By George Dunlap, Advisory Board Chair for the Xen Project The Xen Project has been around for the better part of two decades. As…
Today, the Xen Project is thrilled to welcome Hypervisor-based Memory Introspection (HVMI) as an incubating project! Contributed by Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting over 500 million systems worldwide…
The past several weeks have been an uncertain time globally. In the spirit of transparency, I wanted to update our community on plans for our annual developer conference, The Xen…
A funeral for Lars Kurth will be held on Friday, 7 February, at 11:45 am. Everyone is welcome to attend. Location and further information here: http://larskurth.muchloved.com
It is with a heavy heart that the Xen Project community says goodbye to Advisory Board Chair, Lars Kurth. Lars passed away earlier this week, leaving a hole in our…
This article originally appeared on lwn.net. Suppose you have a program running on your system that you don’t quite trust. Maybe it’s a program submitted by a student to an…
Today we released three patches for the following vulnerabilities: XSA-213, XSA-214 and XSA-215. Xen Project follows industry-accepted best practices regarding software security. This includes observing an embargo period, during which…
Issuing advisories has a cost: It costs the security team significant amounts of time to craft and send the advisories; it costs many of our downstreams time to apply, build,…
There has an unusual amount of media attention to XSA-108 during the embargo period (which ended Wednesday) — far more than any of the previous security issues the Xen Project…
We normally only cover news and information directly related to Xen in this channel, but we thought it might be useful to briefly expand our scope a bit to mention…
I’ve been release coordinator for Xen’s 4.3 and 4.4 releases. For the 4.5 release, I’ve handed this role off to Konrad Wilk, from Oracle. In this blog, I try to…
Xenproject.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.0. The release is available from the download page: Xen 4.4.0: Download, Source (tag RELEASE-4.4.0), release notes. Xen 4.4 is the…
Today I’d like to talk about a functionality of Xen you may not have heard of, but might have actually used without even knowing it. If you use memory ballooning…
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…
Last week the proposed changes to the security policy were approved unanimously by the Xen committers; the policy has been updated accordingly. What this means is that now if you…
Just a quick update — we have passed the feature freeze, and are now beginning the code freeze, in our schedule to get Xen 4.3 out by mid-June. Is say…
The following has been posted on the xen-devel and xen-users mailing lists. Executive summary The number of event channels available for dom0 is currently one of the biggest limitations on…
At XenSummit in August, I talked about the new planning process that Xen.org is experimenting with. This is apparently a pretty hot topic, as that presentation on slideshare.net has received…
After concluding our poll about changes to the security discussion, we determined that “Pre-disclosure to software vendors and a wide set of users” was probably the best fit for the…
In part 1 of this series, I introduced the concepts of full virtualization and paravirtualization (PV), as well as the hardware virtualization (HVM) feature used by Xen (among other things)…
At XenSummit 2012 in San Diego, Mukesh Rathor from Oracle presented his work on a new virtualization mode, called “PVH”. Adding this mode, there are now a rather dizzying array…