I received my PhD from the University of Michigan in December 2006. I joined XenSource in May of 2006. I've been working on analyzing performance in the Xen hypervisor. I'm currently working on a
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 the Embedded Open Source Summit. (If you’re already attending EOSS, Xen Summit registration will be an optional add-on). This
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 at the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.17, which introduces a variety of features allowing
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 Core Team is thrilled to announce the release of MirageOS 4.0. MirageOS is a library operating system
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 moved to Libera Chat. Up-to-date IRC channel information can be found on the xenproject.org IRC reference page. The #unikraft
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 a leading virtualization software, that has the benefit of being both mature and open source, many predictions have already
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 and a Xen Project Advisory Board member company, HVMI allows organizations to make sense of the view of memory provided
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 Summit. The intention of the project is to hold XenProject Developer and Design Summit this year, one way or another.
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 community. Lars joined the Xen Project in January 2011, and it’s no exaggeration to say that the project may
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 automated grading system. Or maybe it’s a QEMU device model running in a Xen control domain
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 time the Xen Project security team will assess, respond, and prepare patches fixing the vulnerability, and distribute them privately to
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, and test patches; and it costs many of our users time to decide whether to do an update, and if