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Design Session - Xen FuSA SIG present and future
11/06/2020

In this Xen Summit Design Session, the Xen Functional Safety Special Interest Group (FuSA SIG), outlines the progress of the group around Xen and Certification, what is currently being done, and possible future plans.  This session goes through the goals of the FuSA, one of which is writing documents for

Xen Summit Keynote: Your self-driving car is awesome. . .because of open source software like Xen
10/30/2020

In this blog series, we will revisit talks from the recent Xen Project Developer and Design Summit, which took place virtually in the summer of 2020.  In his keynote speech, Robin Randhawa, Technical Director at  ARM, gives an overview of how many innovations happening in the automotive industry are made

Xen Summit: Running Xen without Direct Map
10/13/2020

This talk was given by Hongyan Xia & David Woodhouse of Amazon at the 2020 Xen Project Developer and Design Summit. With the rising number of speculation vulnerabilities in CPUs, it is time we rethink the design of Xen and restrict the attack surface as much as possible to defend

Arm Contributions to Xen Based Safety Systems
10/05/2020

Arm, a member of the Xen project, has made valuable contributions to the Xen Project through the years. In this talk, Bertrand Marquis, Principal Software Engineer, Arm Ltd, highlights some of these contributions and outlines what’s to come.  Bertrand starts with the Autonomy reference stack, a Yocto based collection

Xen on Raspberry Pi 4 adventures
09/29/2020

The Xen Project is excited to share that the Xen Hypervisor now runs on Raspberry Pi. This is an exciting step for both hobbyists and industries. Read more to learn about how Xen now runs on RPi and how to get started.  Written by Stefano Stabellini and Roman Shaposhnik, originally

Cache Coloring: Interference-free Real-time Virtualization
09/03/2020

At this year’s Xen Developer and Design Summit, Stefano Stabellini from Xilinx gave a talk on Cache Coloring, a new feature for Xen that helps better support real-time workloads.  Many embedded deployments require deterministic IRQ latency, which can be difficult to pull off as even small spikes lead to

Xen Developer & Design Summit 2020 Virtual Event Recap
08/27/2020

Last month, the Xen Project community gathered, virtually, to collaborate, connect, and solve the important challenges we all face. While our gathering may have looked different than in years past, we made the most of it and heard from a broad set of community members both in presentations and in

HVMI becomes A Xen Project Incubating Project
07/30/2020

Today, the Xen Project is thrilled to welcome Hypervisor-based Memory Introspection (HVMI) as an incubating project!  Contributed by Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting over 500 million systems worldwide and a Xen Project Advisory Board member company, HVMI allows organizations to make sense of the view of memory provided

Xen Project Hypervisor Version 4.14 brings added security and performance
07/24/2020

New version introduces Linux stubdomains and robust live patching to build on security features. SAN FRANCISCO – July 24, 2020 — The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.14, which introduces Linux stubdomains, better nested performance, more robust

Xen Summit 2020 Pivots to a Virtual Experience
05/19/2020

In light of continued Covid-19 safety concerns, the 2020 XenProject Developer and Design Summit will now be held virtually on July 6-9.  As our in-person event shifts to a virtual one, we are taking careful consideration to ensure the Xen Summit will continue to be a great forum to learn,

XenProject Developer and Design Summit: Update in light of COVID-19
03/26/2020

The past several weeks have been an uncertain time globally. In the spirit of transparency, I wanted to update our community on plans for our annual developer conference, The Xen Summit. The intention of the project is to hold XenProject Developer and Design Summit this year, one way or another.

Unikraft: Building Powerful Unikernels Has Never Been Easier!
02/21/2020

Two years ago, the Xen Project introduced Unikraft (http://unikraft.org) as an incubation project. Over the past two years, the Unikraft project has seen some great momentum. Since the last release, the community has grown about 20% and contributions have diversified a great deal. Contributions from outside the project