The Xen Project is pleased to announce that we have been accepted to participate in this years Google Summer of Code and that the Xen Project will also participate in Round 8 of the Gnome Outreach Program For Women. Google Summer of Code You can find our project list
Currently the Xen Project’s automatic testing setup runs on a small set of hardware in space borrowed from Citrix. Because it’s on the Citrix network, it’s not possible to give access to other community members. The underlying systems are creaking rather. And the system is too small
The Xen Project is pleased to announce the availability of  two maintenance releases: Xen 4.3.2 and Xen 4.2.4. Xen 4.3.2 Release This release is available immediately from the git repository: http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/
Today I’d like to talk about a functionality of Xen you may not have heard of, but might have actually used without even knowing it. If you use memory ballooning to resize your guests, you’ve likely used “populate-on-demand” at some point. As you may know, ballooning
As usual, the first weekend of February (1st & 2nd Feb this year) is FOSDEM weekend. Taking place at “ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth”, FOSDEM is the Open Source event of the year. At least for Europe: the website claims that FOSDEM hosts 5,000+ geeks and hackers
The Linux v3.14 will sport a new mode in which the Linux kernel can run thanks to Mukesh Rathor (Oracle). Called ‘ParaVirtualized Hardware,’ it allows the guest to utilize many hardware features – while at the same time having no emulated devices. It is the next step in PV evolution,
As most FreeBSD users already know, FreeBSD 10 has just been released, and we expect this to be a very good release regarding Xen support. FreeBSD with Xen support includes many improvements, including several performance and stability enhancements that we expect will greatly please and interest users. With many bug
Originally posted on my blog, here. Xen has had a long history in libvirt. In fact, it was the first hypervisor supported by libvirt. I’ve witnessed an incredible evolution of libvirt over the years and now not only does it support managing many hypervisors such as Xen,
Release time is approaching, so Xen Project Test Days have arrived! On Monday, January 20, we are holding a Test Day for Xen 4.4. Release Candidate 2. Xen Project Test Day is your opportunity to work with code which is targeted for the next release, ensure that new features
Going to FOSDEM’14? 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. There are 4 of them, and they will provide some details about new and interesting usecases for virtualization, like in
2013 has been a year of changes for the Xen Community. I wanted to share my five personal highlights of the year. But before I do this, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the Xen Project in 2013 and the years before. Open Source is about bringing together
In 2013, we held the first major Xen event aimed specifically at users: the Xen Project User Summit. In 2014, we want to do it again — but where and when? The Xen Project wants to hold its second Xen Project User Summit. We’d like to hold it somewhere