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Unikraft at Usenix Lisa 21 Conference: It's Time to Debloat the Cloud with Unikraft
06/01/2021

On Thursday, June 3 at 12 pm PT, check out Unikraft’s talk at Usenix Lisa 21. Felipe Huici, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, will be giving the following talk, “It’s Time to Debloat the Cloud with Unikraft.” In his presentation, Felipe will outline the real challenges of cloud computing

Why Attend the 2021 Xen Project Design and Developer Summit?
05/18/2021

It’s almost that time of year, where we gather together as a Xen Project community and geek out on one of our most favorite topics – The Xen Project, of course! This year’s Xen Project Design and Developer Summit, happening May 25-28, 2021,  is gearing up to be one

Unikraft at Eurosys
04/27/2021

This post was written by Dr. Felipe Huici Chief Researcher, Systems and Machine Learning Group, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH. The open source Unikraft project is proud to announce that its paper titled “Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way” has not only been accepted at Eurosys, one of the top

Xen Project Hypervisor 4.15 now Available
04/08/2021

Xen Project ships version 4.15 with Focus on Broader Accessibility, Performance, and Security. New version introduces Processor Trace, Improved Viridian support. Community initiatives, including Functional Safety and RISC-V Port, continue to progress.  SAN FRANCISCO – April 8, 2021–The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation,

XenProject at Linaro Connect
03/16/2021

Linaro Virtual Connect 2021 provides a platform to discuss and learn about the leading software topics, challenges and opportunities in the Arm Ecosystem today. The event will have 60+ technical keynotes, sessions, and more, and it’s taking place March 23-25, 2021. This year’s Linaro event will include several

Xen Project is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
03/15/2021

The Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) Program’s mission is to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities.  CVE numbers (assigned when vulnerabilities are added to the CVE List) enable two or more people or tools to refer to a vulnerability and know they are talking about the same

Xen Summit 2021 Updates
03/10/2021

2021 Xen Project Design and Developer Summit: Registration and CFP Open Now! We are so excited to announce that registration and Call for Proposals has officially opened for the Xen Project Developer & Design Summit. This year’s Summit will be a virtual experience taking place from May 25 – 28,

Xen 4.15 RC1 - Please test
03/02/2021

Xen 4.15 is in code freeze, and we cut RC1 yesterday. Please help us test it to make sure Xen 4.15 is a high quality release (and that it works well for your use cases!) You can find 4.15 RC1 from git: git clone https://xenbits.xenproject.

2021: Xen Project, virtualization and beyond
02/10/2021

This post originally appeared on VM Blog. By George Dunlap, Advisory Board Chair for the Xen Project The Xen Project has been around for the better part of two decades. As a leading virtualization software, that has the benefit of being both mature and open source, many predictions have already

The Xen Project at FOSDEM: Unikraft and XCP-ng
02/04/2021

It’s that time of year when open source community gathers for FOSDEM! FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. This year’s event will take place virtually, making it more accessible than ever. It will take place Feb 6 and 7.  The

Cut your Cloud Computing Costs by Half with Unikraft
12/18/2020

This post originally appeared on Linux.com A novel modular unikernel allows for extreme tailoring of your operating system to your application’s needs. A proof of concept, built on Unikraft, a Xen Project subproject, shows up to 50% efficiency improvements than standard Linux on AWS EC2.  Cloud computing has

HVMI: Security Solutions Thrive on Friendly Hypervisors
12/14/2020

This talk was given by Raul Tosa & Daniel Ticle, Bitdefender at the Xen Developer and Design Summit in July 2020. In July, Bitdefender open sourced Hypervisor Memory Introspection (HVMI). This talk provided a preview.  Security solutions like Hypervisor Memory Introspection (HVMI) require dedicated hypervisor support. One example is the