During the 2021 Xen Summit, representatives from the Xen Project Functional Safety Special Interest Group have an update on what the SIG has been up to. The panelists covered what work is being done by Functional Safety Special Interest Group to bring Xen on Arm mainline to regulated domains such
At the 2021 Xen Developer and Design Summit, Tamas K Lengyel, Senior Security Researcher at Intel Corporation, gave a deep dive into the latest developments of Intel’s Xen-based fuzzer that the organization open-sourced last year. A fuzzer is a program that helps detect bugs in code. Since open-sourcing, Tamas
Due to circumstances, all Xen subprojects have now moved their IRC channels off of Freenode. The following channels have been moved to OFTC: #xendevel, #xen, #xeninfra #xcp-ng, #xcp-ng-dev. #mirage has moved to Libera Chat. Up-to-date IRC channel information can be found on the xenproject.org IRC reference page. The #unikraft
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
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
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 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,
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
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
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 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.
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