This document has been updated since it was published! Updates are marked in blue. On January 3rd, 2018, Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users
Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the
Some recent patches to the QEMU source fix a long standing problem where the PV vkbd backend was unable to function correctly without the PV fb backend, which effectively made it pointless to implement PV HID (i.e. keyboard and mouse) frontends for HVM guests. Now that the problem has
Leading security vendor joins open source project to support and accelerate hypervisor’s growth SAN FRANCISCO, December 18, 2017 – The Xen Project, a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity technology company protecting 500 million users worldwide, is a new Advisory Board member. The
The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive
Rearchitecture and new user interface provide for cleaner and smaller codebase SAN FRANCISCO, December 14, 2017 – The Xen Project, hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10. The latest release continues to take a security-first approach with improved architecture and more centralized documentation.
The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive
I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. The Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10 continues to take a security-first approach with improved architecture and more centralized documentation. The
The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive
Xen Project Introduces the Unikraft Unikernel Project Unikraft aims to simplify the process of building unikernels through a unified and customizable code base SAN FRANCISCO, December 5, 2017 – The Xen Project, hosted by The Linux Foundation, today announced the formation of Unikraft. Unikraft is an incubation project under the Xen
This blog post was written by Dr. Felipe Huici, Chief Researcher, Systems and Machine Learning Group, at NEC Laboratories Europe  The team at NEC Laboratories Europe spent quite a bit of time over the last few years developing unikernels – specialized virtual machine images targeting specific applications. This technology
The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive