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
It’s that time of year when open source community gathers for FOSDEM! FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. This year’s event will take place virtually, making it more accessible than ever. It will take place Feb 6 and 7. The
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
Today, the Xen Project is happy to welcome XCP-ng as an incubation project. XCP-ng is a fully open-source virtualization platform and is a result of the massive cooperation between individuals as well as companies. XCP-ng fits well into the Xen Project ecosystem for many reasons. In the past, the Xen
Starting today, registration and Call for Proposals officially opens for the Xen Project Developer & Design Summit. This year’s Summit, taking place from June 2nd through the 4th at the PRECIS Center in Bucharest, Romania, will bring together the Xen Project community of developers and power users to share
I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.12.2. Xen Project maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.12 stable series update to the latest point release. The release is available from its git