Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager

Lars Kurth
Announcing Xen Project 4.8 RC and Test Day Schedule
10/05/2016

On Monday, we created Xen 4.8 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every week, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.8 release. We will also hold a Test Day every Friday for the release candidate that was released

A Recap of the Xen Project Developer Summit 2016
09/26/2016

The Xen Project descended on Toronto, Canada in late August for its annual Xen Project Developer Summit. The Summit is an opportunity for developers and software engineers to collaborate and discuss the latest advancements of the Xen Project software. It also gives developers a chance to better understand new trends

Virtual Machine Introspection: A Security Innovation With New Commercial Applications
08/15/2016

The article from Lars Kurth, the Xen Project chairperson, was first published on Linux.com. A few weeks ago, Citrix and Bitdefender launched XenServer 7 and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, which together compose the first commercial application of the Xen Project Hypervisor’s Virtual Machine Introspection (VMI) infrastructure. In this article,

Q&A: Xen Project Release Strengthens Security and Pushes New Use Cases
07/18/2016

The following Q&A with Lars Kurth, the Xen Project chairperson, was first published on Linux.com. Xen Project technology supports more than 10 million users and is a staple in some of the largest clouds in production today, including Amazon Web Service, Tencent, and Alibaba’s Aliyun. Recently,

Xen Project 4.7 and 4.6.3 Release
06/23/2016

I’m pleased to announce the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.7 and Xen Project Hypervisor 4.6.3. Xen Project Hypervisor 4.7 This new release focuses on improving code quality, security hardening, security features, live migration support, usability improvements and support for new hardware features — this

Xen Project Hypervisor 4.7 Brings Non-Disruptive Patching
06/23/2016

Latest Xen Project release delivers security enhancements for embedded and automotive use cases with support for the latest hardware features SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2016 – The Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project 4.7. The release minimizes downtime and improves

Xen Project Community Hosts Annual Developers Summit in August
06/08/2016

We recently announced the program and speakers for our Xen Project Developer Summit happening in Toronto, Canada from August 25-26, 2016. The event will be co-located with LinuxCon North America. The Xen Project hypervisor powers the new needs of computing and virtualization through a rich ecosystem of community members that

Xen Project Community Hosts Annual Developers Summit in August
06/08/2016

Open Source Hypervisor Community Descends on Toronto to Discuss, Educate and Collaborate on the future of the Xen Project Virtualization SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2016 – The Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the program and speakers for theXen Project Developer Summit that brings together developers,

Introducing the Xen Project Code Review Dashboard
06/03/2016

The Xen Project’s code contributions have grown more than 10% each year. Although growth is extremely healthy to the project as a whole, it has its growing pains. For the Xen Project, it led to issues with its code review process: maintainers believed that their review workload increased and

Huawei Joins Xen Project’s Advisory Board
05/11/2016

Global ICT leader looks to contribute and develop Xen Project software to advance its cloud computing growth SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2016 – The Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced Huawei, a global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, is a new Advisory Board member.

Announcing Xen Project 4.7 RC and Test Day Schedule
05/11/2016

Yesterday we created Xen 4.7 RC2 and will release a new release candidate every Wednesday, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.7 release. We will also hold a Test Day every Friday for the release candidate that was released the

Please Welcome new Members of the Xen Project Hypervisor Leadership Team
05/06/2016

Evolution of Hypervisor Git Commits within the project. Note that in parallel the number of individuals and organisations contributing to the project has nearly doubled. The Xen Project has experienced incredible growth in our community (see diagram on the right) and simultaneously the Xen Project advisory board has funded a