As you all know, I do not normally write on the Xen.org blog; any blog for that matter. Lars asked me to announce the XenSummit line-up and how could I say no, given the quality of content and the effort that has gone into this year’s XenSummit. I
This is a guest blog post by Sagar Kadam, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Sagar’s GSoC project is called Porting Unix libc to Xen PV. Please welcome Sagar into the community. Hello all; I am Sagar Kadam from NYU Poly where I am pursuing my MS
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Xen 4.1.1 maintenance release, the first maintenance release of the Xen 4.1 series. The release can be downloaded from the download pages. Xen 4.1.1 sports the following changes: * Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898 * Enhancements to guest
About a year ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/272) my first patchset that laid the ground work to enable initial domain (dom0) was accepted in the Linux kernel. It was tiny: a total of around 50 new lines of code added. Great, except that it took me
XenSummit North America is approaching: the Call For Participation has closed and we had our first Program Management Committee. We have many good submissions and we started accepting talks: unfortunately some talks will have to be rejected. I am also very excited about the keynote, but it will be more
This is a guest blog post by George Boutsioukis, one of our Google Summer of Code students. My name is George Boutsioukis and I’m a CS undergraduate at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. This is my second year in GSoC, after taking up a project last year for
You may remember the Community vote on the Xen Governance Proposal: well the deadline for the vote passed a few minutes ago and I closed the vote. There was almost unanimous for the proposal: * 92% in favor * 8% abstained I also got some constructive and encouraging feedback such as: * I
My name is Mike McClurg, and I am a Citrix developer working on the Xen API (xapi) and the Xen Cloud Platform. I have recently been chosen as the new lead for the XCP project, and there are a few exciting new developments that I’d like to share with
This is a very short blog post as both Wim Coekaert and Ewan Mellor beat me by some time in publishing this great news: I was too busy traveling and celebrating. The fantastic news is that Linux 3.0 will have everything necessary to run Xen as both as a
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Kiper, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Daniel’s GSoC project is called Recovery of crashed Linux. Please welcome Daniel into the community. My name is Daniel Kiper. I was born and live in Poland. I am a PhD student
This is a guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Please welcome Wei into the community. Hi, all. I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Our university is said to be one of the most beautiful universities
XenSummit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open until May 31, 2011 20:00 UTC+1. More information about XenSummit can be found here. Program Management Committee: I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program Management Committee. * Boris Quiroz, Senior SysAdmin, Xen fan