In this industry, everyone seems to talk about innovation, but very few platforms exist which foster innovation. More times than not, “innovation” is simply a buzzword used by some marketing campaign to hawk something about as novel as twenty-year-old accounting software. Innovation does occur, of course. But often
It all started with pvgrub2: it was March 2015 and I wanted to add grub2 to the Xen build system. We were already building grub-legacy as part of the Xen build, so that we could produce a pvgrub binary to be used to boot PV guests. After Vladimir ‘phcoder‘ Serbinenko’
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.1. We recommend that all users of the 4.5 stable series update to this first point release. Xen 4.5.1 is available immediately from its git repository: xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=
I am pleased to announce the schedule for the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Seattle on August 17-18, 2015. The Xen Project Developer Summit brings together its community of developers and power users. Each year the event features the latest developments, best practices, collaboration, product
Open Source Hypervisor Community to Collaborate on New Innovations and Future of Xen Project at Annual Event SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced the program and speakers for the Xen Project Developers Summit that unites developers, integrators and power
ARM joined Xen Project two years ago as part of its drive into servers, networking and the emerging “Internet of Things†markets. In our latest “Future of Xen†video, Thomas Molgaard, Manager of Software Marketing – Systems & Software at ARM, talks about changes unfolding in enterprise and cloud
A few weeks ago, we introduced the Xen Project – OpenStack CI Loop, which is testing Nova commits against the Xen Project Hypervisor and Libvirt. Xen Project community is pleased to announce that we have moved from Quality Group C to B, as we’ve made significant progress in the
This is a guest blog post by Tamas K. Lengyel, a long-time open source enthusiast and Xen contributor. Tamas works as a Senior Security Researcher at Novetta, while finishing his PhD on the topic of malware analysis and virtualization security at the University of Connecticut. The recent disclosure of the
After spending almost a week in Shanghai for the Xen Project Hackathon it is time to write up some notes. More than 48 delegates from Alibaba, Citrix, Desay SV Automotive, GlobalLogic, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, Oracle, Suse and Visteon Electronics attended the event, which covered a wide range of topics. I
We recently introduced the new Xen Project Test Lab, a key piece of infrastructure to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. As stated earlier, “we are serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and, whenever possible, eliminating any adverse effects from defects, security vulnerabilities or
This is a reprint of a 3-part unikernel series published on Linux.com. In this post, Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman Lars Kurth explains how unikernels address security and allow for the careful management of particularly critical portions of an organization’s data and processing needs. (See part one,Â