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
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
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.5. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.5 stable series update to this point release. Xen 4.5.5 is available immediately from its
Let’s take a step back and look at the current state of virtualization in the software industry. X86 hypervisors were built to run a few different operating systems on the same machine. Nowadays they are mostly used to execute several instances of the same OS (Linux), each running a
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,
Last year, we really enjoyed co-hosting a hackathon and social event with the KVM community. It spurred really interesting conversations, a bit of friendly competition and some community bonding. Back by popular demand is another joint KVM community event. Xen Project and KVM are hosting the joint social event at
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,
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
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
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
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,
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