Last week, we announced the program for the Xen Project Developer Summit on the Xen Mailing lists. This year, we have a fantastic line-up covering topics from Xen Development, Cloud Computing, Xen on Mobile Devices, Graphics Virtualization and new and interesting use-cases for Xen. Half of the available spaces are
Xen has long history and many features. Sometimes even experienced developers cannot be sure whether their new code is regression-free. To make sure new code doesn’t cause regression, Ian Jackson developed a test framework called OSSTest. In order to make this framework usable for individual ad-hoc testing, standalone mode
The Xen Project was well represented at LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America. Sponsored by the Linux Foundation, the two co-located conferences featured a number of Xen-related talks, as well as the first Xen Project User Summit (which will be discussed at length in a post to follow)
Here is an update about feature completeness of QEMU compared to the old qemu-traditional. But first, what is the difference between QEMU and qemu-traditional? QEMU is the software that can be found at qemu.org, we can also call it QEMU upstream. It’s where all new features are supposed
The CfP for the Xen Project Developer Summit finished on Friday. I wanted to thank our Program Management Committee for putting in the effort to put together our program in record time. This was no easy task: we had nearly 50 extremely high quality submissions this year. Despite restricting talks
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.6.1. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.1.6.1) or from the Xen Project download pages. Note that 4.1.6 did not get released, as a build issue was
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.3. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.2.3) or from the Xen Project download pages. This release fixes the following critical vulnerabilities: * CVE-2013-1918 / XSA-45: Several long latency operations are not preemptible
Key deadlines are at your doorstep; Sign up now to participate! With so many people returning from well-earned vacations, we want to remind you to act quickly to take advantage of the upcoming Summit meetings. Xen Project User Summit is Less Than Two Weeks Away! Register now to join the
One of the stated goals for 2013 and 2014 of the Xen Project Advisory Board is to Increase upstream Xen Hypervisor quality including the quality of its latest CPU and Platform features and to address problems with the code in a timely and proactive manner, including defects, security vulnerabilities and
I’ve recently returned from Debconf 13, in Vaumarcus in Switzerland. My colleague Ian Campbell joined me there. Debconf is the annual conference for contributors to Debian, with a few hundred attendees. There’s a fairly standard conference format with a programme of talks and BoF sessions, but the best
If you are testing Xen in your environment, you probably already have images native to other hypervisors which you might like to test. So a common question is, “How can I convert these images so I can use them in Xen?” Conversion requires two steps: first, convert the foreign
The following monologue explains how Linux drivers are able to program a device when running in a Xen virtual machine on ARM. The problem that needs to be solved is that Xen on ARM guests run with second stage translation in hardware enabled. That means that what the Linux kernel