Xen 4.15 is in code freeze, and we cut RC1 yesterday. Please help us test it to make sure Xen 4.15 is a high quality release (and that it works…
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We've just released a rather interesting batch of Xen security advisories. This has given rise in some quarters to grumbling around Xen not taking security seriously. I have a longstanding…
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Currently the Xen Project's automatic testing setup runs on a small set of hardware in space borrowed from Citrix. Because it's on the Citrix network, it's not possible to give…
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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…
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The Xen hypervisor is now officially in git. There's a single repo with a branch corresponding to each old xen*.hg tree: New git branch Old mercurial tree master xen-unstable.hg stable-4.0…
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We do some automatic testing of the Xen hypervisor and tools branches. These tests form the "push gate" between the "staging" branch of xen-unstable (and the stable releases) and the…
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I'd like talk about the xen-tools package, which is found in Debian-derived distros. It's a straightforward Xen VM provisioning tool with an unusual but attractive approach. I use it in…
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Most open source projects, Xen.org included, do what is called "coordinated disclosure" of security problems. The idea is that we keep security bugs secret until people have had a chance…
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Over the past few months we have been working on improving the API for the libxl library. libxl is to become the base layer for all Xen toolstacks. We intend…
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Last week I was at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest. The best news is: the next release of Ubuntu, oneiric ocelot, will have dom0-capable kernels in main and Xen…
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