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The Bare-Metal Hypervisor as a Platform for Innovation
07/08/2015

In this industry, everyone seems to talk about innovation, but very few platforms exist which foster innovation.  More times than not, “innovation” is simply a buzzword used by some marketing campaign to hawk something about as novel as twenty-year-old accounting software. Innovation does occur, of course.  But often

Why Unikernels Can Improve Internet Security
04/23/2015

This is a reprint of a 3-part unikernel series published on Linux.com. In this post, Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman Lars Kurth explains how unikernels address security and allow for the careful management of particularly critical portions of an organization’s data and processing needs. (See part one,Â

7 Unikernel Projects to Take On Docker in 2015
04/20/2015

This is a reprint of a 3-part unikernel series published on Linux.com. In part one, Xen Project Advisory Board Chairman Lars Kurth takes a closer look at the rise of unikernels and several up-and-coming projects to keep close tabs on in the coming months. Docker and Linux container technologies

Schrödinger's Cat in a (Xen) Virtualzed 'Box'
07/04/2013

Fedora Logo Yes, apparently Schrödinger’s cat is alive, as the latest release of Fedora – Fedora 19, codename Schrödinger’s cat– as been released on July 2nd, and that even happened quite on time. So, apparently, putting the cat “in a box” and all the stuff

Xen Support Updates
06/10/2009

For those of you looking for more assistance with a particular Domain0 or DomainU guest operating system, I have created a new document that lists the OS and links to support sites. I have also added a new link on the Xen.org Support pages to the Pre-Built DomU sites

Launch DomU from Pre-Built Image
02/19/2009

In the second posting on my explorations with Xen 3.3.1, I am going to highlight the steps I followed and problems I had when launching a simple pre-built DomU image. Like my compiling Xen post  – this is not for regular Xen users but for people thinking of trying

Now where are my domUs?
03/13/2008

It’s a question many will ask at some point. You’ve got Xen set up, used a graphical tool to configure some domUs (or downloaded some pre-built images, or followed a howto). But now you want to know where your virtual machines are actually stored. It’s a good