This is a guest blog post by Rich Persaud, former member of the Citrix XenServer and XenClient engineering and business teams. He is currently a consultant to BAE Systems, working…
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Yesterday we created Xen 4.7 RC2 and will release a new release candidate every Wednesday, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.7…
The Xen Project has experienced incredible growth in our community (see diagram on the right) and simultaneously the Xen Project advisory board has funded a lot of great projects that…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.3. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.6.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy: this means we make one new point…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.4. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the…
I am pleased to announce the next Xen Project Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by ARM in their Cambridge Headquarters from April 18 and 19. I wanted to thank…
With Xen 4.6 released in October, we are already one month into the new cycle. Which means it is time to start planning for the next release. You may remember…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.2. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released roughly every 4 months, in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that…
I’m pleased to announce the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.6. This release focused on improving code quality, security hardening, enablement of security appliances, and release cycle predictability — this…
A little more than a week ago at Linaro Connect SFO15 in Burlingame Jim Perrin of the CentOS project publicly announced the availability of the Xen hypervisor in CentOS 7…
This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (Round 11). Please check the round 11 page for more information about the December 2015 to…
Our Fourth (and Possibly Final) 4.6 Release Candidate to be Tested This Thursday Our Xen Project Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production, beyond what our…
The Third 4.6 Release Candidate to be Tested on Tuesday Our Xen Project Test Days help insure that upcoming releases are ready for production, beyond what our automated testing through…
Join 4.6 Release Candidate Testing on September 1, 2015 Although the Xen Project performs automated testing through the project’s Test Lab, we also depend on manual testing of release candidates…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.4.3. We recommend that all users of the 4.4 stable series update to this latest maintenance release. Xen 4.4.3 is available…
Docker’s popularity and usefulness in cloud systems architectures is evident, having won over countless developers. Yet, it’s not a replacement for mature, proven and security-hardened virtualization technologies that support many…
It all started with pvgrub2: it was March 2015 and I wanted to add grub2 to the Xen build system. We were already building grub-legacy as part of the Xen…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.1. We recommend that all users of the 4.5 stable series update to this first point release. Xen 4.5.1 is available…
A few weeks ago, we introduced the Xen Project – OpenStack CI Loop, which is testing Nova commits against the Xen Project Hypervisor and Libvirt. Xen Project community is pleased…
We recently introduced the new Xen Project Test Lab, a key piece of infrastructure to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. As stated earlier, “we are serious…
One of Xen Project’s highest priorities is to continually work to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. We’re serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and,…
Born in the logic of ones and zeroes and forged in the heat of battle, two hypervisors–sworn foes in the realm of virtualization–are about to unite in a way many…
This is a quick reminder that the Xen Project is again participating in Outreachy (formerly known as OPW/Outreach program for Women). Outreachy is the successor of the Outreach Program for…
Recent Changes Let Xen Project Work Out of the Box in OpenStack Members of the Xen Project development team have always believed that the hypervisor must be available for integration…