Background: Introduction to Xen PV Bootloaders In the very early days of Xen it was necessary for the host (domain 0) administrator to explicitly supply a kernel (and perhaps initial…
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ACPI vs. Device Tree on ARM Some of you may have seen the recent discussions on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list (and others) about the use of ACPI vs DT on…
With the release process for Xen 4.3 in full swing (we intend to release the third release candidate this week) and with the Xen Test Days initiative (the next one…
What is Valgrind? Valgrind is a framework for building dynamic analysis tools. Several useful tools are included in the Valgrind distribution including tools to check dynamic memory usage (memcheck), a…
Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of code of development effort, by 124 individuals from 43 organizations.
Just a quick update on the Xen 4.2 release. 4.2.0-rc3 was released on 23 August and we intend to release rc4 around the end of the week. Barring any last…
There’s been a lot of good progress in the Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions port since I first blogged about it here. Thanks to some recent work, mainly by…
Last week we finally crossed the last major remaining issues off the Xen 4.2 TODO list. This means that the release plan now looks like this: 19 March — TODO…
All of this week Ian Jackson and myself have been have been attending DebConf12 in Managua, Nicaragua. This is the annual conference of the Debian Project, hosted this year by…
Xen.org recently released a number of (related) security updates, XSA-7 through to -9. This was done by the Xen.org Security Team who are charged with following the Xen.org Security Problem…
It’s been a while since the last 4.2 release update and a lot has changed since then, so I suppose it is time for another update. Way back at the…
We have hit the next milestone in the release plan for Xen 4.2: 19 March — TODO list locked down 2 April — Feature Freeze WE ARE HERE Mid/Late April…
Since early January I have been tracking the status of work left to do before 4.2 by posting a weekly roundup of the remaining blockers and “nice to haves”. You…
Back in november we announced our effort to port Xen to the ARM Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions. I am very pleased to say that as of xen-unstable.hg changeset…
The Xen community was very interested in (and a little worried by!) the recent performance comparison of â€Baremetal, Virtual Box, KVM and Xenâ€, published by Phoronix, so I took it…