The first release of Mirage OS back in December 2013 introduced the prototype of the unikernel concept, which realised the promise of a safe, flexible mechanism to build highly optimized software stacks purpose-built for deployment in the public cloud (see the overview of Mirage OS for some background). Since then,
This week, we are reblogging this excellent piece from Luis from SUSE. The article came about because of a discussion Luis had at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Napa, and he decided to write down some basic generals of the xenstore, a review of its first implementation and a
Over the next two weeks, there are no less than five great opportunities to hear about the Xen Project. Â These include: The Linux Link Tech Show on May 29, 2013 Xen Project Evangelist Russ Pavlicek will be a guest of The Linux Link Tech Show crew. Â This weekly
In April, Xen unveiled a new community site at xenproject.org. Xen Project leaders worked closely with CloudAccess.net in the development of their new online home, built using Joomla. CloudAccess.net is the official host of demo.joomla.org and one of the countless cloud-based companies that benefits from
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of these projects are examples of standing on the shoulders of giants. * In 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge announced the plan
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
The latest survey results for the Xen.org Mascot question are as follows: 76 total voters 62 YES (81%) 14 NO (18%) Based on the trending I am seeing, there is clearly a majority of community members who would like Xen to have a mascot. Based on these results I
This video uses code_swarm to visualise the development of the Xen project. It shows commits to xen-unstable.hg. Each dot represents a file. New files appear in a random place, and with each commit they get brighter and move towards the person making the change. The colours represent a
The Xen Champions team has been working on a new slide-deck for the community to leverage. It is a basic overview of Xen.org and the Xen Hypervisor. We plan to launch the final slide-deck later this week to the community for leverage. NOTE – Once the slides are available in
For those of you who want to hear Ian’s latest comments on Xen, etc – Doug Brown of www.dabcc.com has just posted a PodCast at http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=75. From VMBlog.com (http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/12/15/podcast-with-xen-open-source-virtualization-founder-and-citrix-vp-ian-pratt.aspx) n episode 67,
For those of you tracking my “History of Xen” blog series, I am proud to announce that we finally have the story of where “Xen” came from – check out this comment.Â
Ian Pratt gave the Keynote address at the USENIX NSDI 2008 event last week. Here is a link to the USENIX NSDI site: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/tech.html. Ian’s slides are available in pdf (ian-nsdi-keynote-apr2008.pdf). I don’t know if a video was taken