Let’s take a step back and look at the current state of virtualization in the software industry. X86 hypervisors were built to run a few different operating systems on the same machine. Nowadays they are mostly used to execute several instances of the same OS (Linux), each running a
Going to FOSDEM’14? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. There are 4 of them, and they will provide some details about new and interesting usecases for virtualization, like in
The researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Pennsylvania are pleased to announce, here on this blog, the release of a new and greatly improved version of the RT-Xen project. Recent years have seen increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments (for example, the Xen-ARM
For the last several years, the Xen developer community has been increasing its ability to collaborate well with other projects. We succeeded in finally getting the necessary infrastructure for dom0 support into Linux in 2011. We have upstreamed the most important changes to QEMU, and will be using an upstream
Today, Citrix and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that it will relicense the CloudStack open source project under the Apache License and contribute the CloudStack code to the ASF. Before I explain why this is good for the Xen community and the Open Cloud, I wanted to congratulate CloudStack
The Xen.org and OpenNebula.org open source communities are working together to add XCP support to OpenNebula. This collaboration will produce the  OpenNebula Toolkit for XCP, which will be hosted as freely available open source project on OpenNebula.org. The XCP project team and Xen.org community will
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen User Group LA Video – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/26/xen-user-group-la-event-video/ * Xen Summit Asia
From Oracle comes an excellent site with good information on virtualization, Xen, and Oracle VM. The site is http://itnewscast.com/underground-oracle-vm-manual.
Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena (Quake clone) under your Dom0 (and you could do theoretically that under DomU, but
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Community Member Spotlight Dulloor Rao – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/09/community-member-spotlight-dulloor-rao/ * Virtualization and over-subscription:
I received an email from Andres Lagar-Cavilla about an interesting post from GridCentric, a virtualization startup. Something that we think about a lot at GridCentric is how to ensure that resources are used efficiently. In fact, that’s what led us to create Copper in the first place — seeing how
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Oracle VM Demo – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/02/really-cool-animated-demo-of-oracle-vm/ * Why Xen? White Paper – https: