A little more than a week ago at Linaro Connect SFO15 in Burlingame Jim Perrin of the CentOS project publicly announced the availability of the Xen hypervisor in CentOS 7 for ARM64 (also known as aarch64). Jim and I have been working closely with George Dunlap, maintainer of Xen in
This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (Round 11). Please check the round 11 page for more information about the December 2015 to March 2015 round of interships. Outreach Program for Women has been helping women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer
Our Fourth (and Possibly Final) 4.6 Release Candidate to be Tested This Thursday Our Xen Project Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production, beyond what our automated testing through our Test Lab can accomplish. It is particularly important that our users test out the upcoming
The Third 4.6 Release Candidate to be Tested on Tuesday Our Xen Project Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production, beyond what our automated testing through our Test Lab can accomplish. It is particularly important that our users test out the upcoming release in their
Join 4.6 Release Candidate Testing on September 1, 2015 Although the Xen Project performs automated testing through the project’s Test Lab, we also depend on manual testing of release candidates by our users. Our Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production. It is
This year’s Xen Project Developer Summit is over! We had two days packed with highly technical sessions that were attended by 120 delegates. Our sessions have – as always – been very interactive with lots of discussions during and after the talks. Of course we did also have lots of time
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.3. We recommend that all users of the 4.4 stable series update to this latest maintenance release. Xen 4.4.3 is available immediately from its git repository: xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=
Today we officially welcome Alibaba as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member. On the heels of the company announcing a $1 billion investment in its cloud computing unit Aliyun, we’re excited Aliyun is also committing to Xen Project virtualization. As the cloud computing unit adds new data centers
Company Leverages Open Source Virtualization to Power Online Marketplaces and Aliyun Cloud Services San Francisco, August 13, 2015 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced Aliyun, the cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) is a new Advisory Board member. Xen Project
Docker is certainly the most influential open source project of the moment. Why is Docker so successful? Is it going to replace Virtual Machines? Will there be a big switch? If so, when? Let’s look at the past to understand the present and predict the future. Before virtual machines,
The Rumprun unikernel, based on the driver components offered by rump kernels, provides a means to run existing POSIX applications as unikernels on Xen. This post explains how we got here (it matters!), what sort of things can be solved today, and also a bit of what is in store
The security threats we’re facing today are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Rootkits, and malware taking advantage of kernel and 0-day vulnerabilities pose especially serious challenges for classic anti-malware solutions, due to the latter’s lack of isolation: they’re typically executing in the same context as the malware they’re