With several companies introducing ARM servers recently, cloud providers and enterprise datacenters are excited to see new alternatives for reducing costs and power use come to market. Cavium, a semiconductor…
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Intel’s Virtualization Architect Donald Dugger started working on Xen Project software eight years ago. We recently interviewed Don to find out why Intel continues to support, contribute and invest in…
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Our Last Scheduled 4.5 Release Candidate Testing is on Wednesday The Test Day for 4.5 RC4 has been set for this Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Test Days insure that the…
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By Olivier Lambert Containers and hypervisors are often seen as competing technologies - enemies even. But in reality the two technologies are complementary and increasingly used together by developers and…
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XCP is Dead; Long Live XenServer! Last year was a momentous year for all things related to the Xen Project. 2013 saw Xen Project become a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. …
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I am pleased to announce the schedule of the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014. The Project’s second annual developer event…
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With Xen on ARM getting out of the early preview phase and becoming more mature, it is time to run a few benchmarks to check that the design choices paid…
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We’re excited to welcome Cavium as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project with eleven founding members, we announced five new members,…
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We’re excited to welcome Rackspace as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project about a year ago, we’ve announced four new members,…
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Using CentOS 6 as the Control Domain for the Xen Project Hypervisor Lots of hosting companies and other service providers settled on combination of the Xen Project Hypervisor and CentOS…
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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,…
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Google and the Outreach Program for Women (OPW) just announced GSoC students and OPW interns. I wanted to briefly introduce our students and interns and their projects, and ask you…
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Alex Agizim, VP and CTO of Embedded Systems at GlobalLogic, had the opportunity to speak at Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2014, in Napa, about their use of the Xen Project…
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You’ll find many of our members and contributors taking on more than coding this spring. We’re excited to attend several upcoming industry events and share Xen Project milestones, news, use…
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Background The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become a fundamental building block in today’s computing environment, accelerating tasks from entertainment applications (gaming, video playback, etc.) to general purpose windowing (Windows*…
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The Xen Project is pleased to announce the availability of  two maintenance releases: Xen 4.3.2 and Xen 4.2.4. Xen 4.3.2 Release This release is available immediately from the git repository:…
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Today I'd like to talk about a functionality of Xen you may not have heard of, but might have actually used without even knowing it. If you use memory ballooning…
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The Linux v3.14 will sport a new mode in which the Linux kernel can run thanks to Mukesh Rathor (Oracle). Called 'ParaVirtualized Hardware,' it allows the guest to utilize many…
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Originally posted on my blog, here. Xen has had a long history in libvirt. In fact, it was the first hypervisor supported by libvirt. I’ve witnessed an incredible evolution of…
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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…
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The Xen ARINC 653 scheduler is a real time scheduler that has been in Xen since 4.1.0. It is a cyclic executive scheduler with a specific usage in mind, so…
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We're very pleased to announce the release of Mirage OS 1.0. This is the first major release of Mirage OS and represents several years of development, testing and community building.…
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ACPI vs. Device Tree on ARM Some of you may have seen the recent discussions on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list (and others) about the use of ACPI vs DT on…
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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…
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Most of the Xen Project Developer Summit Videos and Presentations are now live on Xenproject.org. I wanted to thank all our speakers and attendees for making this year's Xen project…
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