Going to FOSDEM’15? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. Here they are the talks, in some more details: * OpenStack and Xen: Deploy your OpenStack cloud on the Xen hypervisor
This is a reprint of the following Linux.com article by Alex Agizim, VP, CTO Embedded Systems at GlobalLogic “Smart car†technology had a huge presence at CES 2015, from BMW’s 360-degree collision avoidance and parking assist features to Audi’s Human Machine Interface (HMI) that connects to
Intel’s Virtualization Architect Donald Dugger started working on Xen Project software eight years ago. We recently interviewed Don to find out why Intel continues to support, contribute and invest in the Xen Project. One of the first companies to contribute to hardware-assisted virtualization, today Intel remains equally focused
If we used code-names, the Xen 4.5 release should be called Panda on Diet! We have 78K new code with 141K deleted. In effect this release has -63KLOC code than the previous one. The net effect of a skinnier Xen Project Hypervisor code base is increased usability, simplicity and
Improved ARM server and Intel hardware support advance open source virtualization with new workloads and embedded use cases SAN FRANCISCO, January 15, 2015 –The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced availability of Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.5. The latest release builds on Xen Project
Background: Introduction to Xen PV Bootloaders In the very early days of Xen it was necessary for the host (domain 0) administrator to explicitly supply a kernel (and perhaps initial ramdisk) from the domain 0 filesystem in order to start a new guest. This mostly worked and for some use
Our Last Scheduled 4.5 Release Candidate Testing is on Wednesday The Test Day for 4.5 RC4 has been set for this Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Test Days insure that the upcoming release is ready for production. It also allows all users to test out the upcoming release in
A few weeks ago, I went onto a road trip to China with the aim to meet Xen Project users as well as contributors. When I was planning the trip, it became apparent that many of the developers in China are new to the project and had difficulties with Xen
Our Next Round of 4.5 Release Candidate Testing is on Thursday The Test Day for 4.5 RC3 has been set for this Thursday, December 4, 2014. Test Days insure that the upcoming release is ready for production. It also allows power users to test out the upcoming release
By Xing Lin This document describes steps I took to setup a compute node based on Ubuntu 14.04 for OpenStack “juno”, using the Xen Project via libvirt approach. Openstack does not support this approach well as it is in Group C of the hypervisor support matrix for Openstack. You
The Year’s Biggest Xen Project User Event Now Available at Your Desk or On Your Phone You didn’t make it to this year’s Xen Project User Summit in New York City? Or you didn’t catch all the sessions you wanted to see because of scheduling
Join in the Next Round of 4.5 Release Candidate Testing on Thursday The Test Day for 4.5 RC2 has been set for this Thursday, November 13, 2014. Test Days insure that the upcoming release is ready for production. It also allows power users to test out the