It has been a while since we held the Xen Project Developer Summit. All slides have been posted on our slideshare channel (prefixed with XPDS14) and are also available on youtube. Slides and videos are also available on the presentation & video page of our website (again, just search for
The Xen Project team is pleased to announce the first Test Day for 4.5 Release Candidate 1 will be held on October 29, 2014. The 4.5 release is just a few weeks away, so this is an important event in our development calendar. Test Days insure that
The recent XSA-108 vulnerability resulted in a lot of media coverage, which ended up stress-testing some of our policy and security related processes. During the embargo period of XSA-108, the Xen Project Security Team was faced with some difficult questions of policy interpretation, as well as practical issues related to
by Paul Durrant Back in 2013 Citrix made XenServer fully open source. As part of that work the previously closed Windows drivers for paravirtual devices were opened up and made available to the community on GitHub. These drivers were still very much tied to XenServer though because of assumptions that
There has an unusual amount of media attention to XSA-108 during the embargo period (which ended Wednesday) — far more than any of the previous security issues the Xen Project has reported. It began when a blogger complained that Amazon was telling customers it would be rebooting VMs in certain regions
The Xen Project Security Team today disclosed details of the Xen Security Advisory 108 / CVE-2014-7188 (Improper MSR range used for x2APIC emulation). The Xen Project does not normally comment on specific vulnerabilities other than issuing security advisories. However, given wide interest in this case, we believe it is helpful to
After several days offline, the Xen Project blog has returned! Our blog had been subjected to malicious activities, so we had to take it down and remedy the situation. We’re back now, and although there are a few minor issues to address, we are ready to move forward. A
By Olivier Lambert Containers and hypervisors are often seen as competing technologies – enemies even. But in reality the two technologies are complementary and increasingly used together by developers and admins. This recent Linux.com article talked about this supposed battle, noting however that developers are using Docker in traditional VMs
[Originally post on Linux.com] Some claim that the age of virtualization is now past. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. And this year’s Xen Project User Summit will highlight many of the newest advances in virtualization. If you use the Xen Project Hypervisor
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.1, 4.3.3 and 4.2.5. We recommend that all users of the 4.4, 4.3 and 4.2 stable series update to the latest point release. Xen 4.4.1 Xen 4.4.1 is
This is a repost from Arianna’s blog, which contains a lot of in-depth technical articles related to the Xen Project. So, about halfway through my OPW internship, I was informed that my wonderful mentor, Konrad Wilk, and Xen Project Community Manager Lars Kurth thought to allow me to attend
And by “a ride”, we actually mean a ride. Like this:  Like, will Xen run in your car? Well, it appears it will! It all started with ARM Support In fact, Xen Project developers started woking on supporting the ARM architecture (with hardware virtualization capabilities) a couple of