The XCP team would like to announce Project Zeus, our port of the XCP toolstack to Fedora and CentOS (through the EPEL). This is a follow-on to Project Kronos, which brought the XCP toolstack to Debian-based systems. This will give users the ability to do ‘yum install xcp-xapi’ to build
Virtual Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying cloud computing infrastructure. I’ll be presenting the XCP
Just a quick reminder that the next Xen Document Day is coming up. Xen Document Days are always on the last Monday of each month (unless they clash with another Xen event). Document Days are all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including
Back in november we announced our effort to port Xen to the ARM Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions. I am very pleased to say that as of xen-unstable.hg changeset 24741:fb71a97fe339 the initial patches for this port are now part of the mainline Xen code base and will be
I’m happy to announce that XCP 1.5 Beta is available! This release comes with a number of new features, most notably the Xen 4.1 hypervisor. Please go to the downloads page to download and test the beta release. If you would like to report a possible bug,
Just a quick reminder that it is only 4 weeks to the Oracle hosted Xen Hackathon in Santa Clara, CA, USA (March 6-8). More than half of the available spaces have gone. What is a Xen Hackathon The aim of the Hackathon is to give developers the opportunity to meet
I wanted to remind vendors in the Xen community and individuals looking for jobs, that Xen.org has a Jobs in the community page. In the last three months, four positions were filled. If you are a vendor which is active in the Xen community and are looking to fill
Dear Community Members, I am pleased to announce that I am finally able to build a new website for Xen.org. In fact some of the work has already started and it is time to get your input. The aim of this work is to create an engaging and integrated
Dear Community Members, I am pleased to announce the date and location of the 2012 XenSummit in North America. It will be held from Aug 27-28, 2012 in San Diego, CA, USA. The event will be held immediately before LinuxCon North America 2012, at the same venue. You will find
Dear Xen Developers, I wanted to announce that Ian Campbell from Citrix has been nominated and elected as Xen Hypervisor committer and will be responsible for the ARMv7+VE components in xen-unstable. We have seen an increasing number of patches to xen-unstable to enable support for the ARMv7 processor with
I am pleased to announce the Xen 3.4.4 release, which is an update of the Xen 3.4.x series. This should be one of the most reliable releases since it is the latest maintenance release in the long term stable 3.4 branch that has had endured
Linux 3.2 Linux 3.2 was released on Jan 4th and compared to earlier kernel releases, this one was very focused on fixing bugs reported by the community. Thank you!! Issues that caused lots of bug reports were: * The xen-platform-pci module (used for HVM guest to enable PV drivers)