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Fedora 20 Virtualization Test Day Report
10/16/2013

So, it was Fedora Virtualization Test Day last Tuesday and I actually went down and took the occasion for some good testing of Xen on the next Fedora release (Fedora 20, codename Heisenbug). Fedora is going to ship Xen 4.3 (and there are not many other mainstream distribution doing

Xen Project User Summit Videos Available
10/14/2013

For those community members, who could not attend the Xen Project User Summit in New Orleans, we now published all the videos on our video stream. For your convenience, we also created a portal page that links to all recordings of the user summit. Again, a big Thank You to

Fedora 20 Virtualization Test Day is today!
10/08/2013

Yes, today (Tuesday, October 8th) is one of the Fedora 20 Test Days, more specifically, Virtualization Test Day. Specific information regarding testing Xen on the new Fedora can be found in this Wiki page. For attending and participating, join us now on IRC at #fedora-test-day (Freenode)! Fedora 20 will be

Xen Project Developer Summit Line-up Announced
10/02/2013

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

OSSTest Standalone Mode Step by Step
09/30/2013

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

Xen Project Alive and Well at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America
09/26/2013

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)

QEMU vs. qemu-traditional update
09/20/2013

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

Peek Preview : Xen Project Developer Summit, October 24-25, Edinburgh
09/12/2013

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

Xen 4.1.6.1 released
09/10/2013

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

Xen 4.2.3 released
09/09/2013

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

Xen Project User and Developer Summit Deadlines Are At Hand
09/06/2013

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

Evolving the Xen Project Test Infrastructure
09/04/2013

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