Talks Welcome & Community RoundupLars Kurth, Citrix Presentation Video Xen Project Development UpdateGeorge Dunlap, Citrix Xen 4.3 was the first release with our new “release coordinator” role during the…
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We are pleased to announce that the Xen Project will co-host a two-day Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM’14, alongside Redhat and the Openstack Foundation. Call for Papers: Closes December…
Last week I was in Edinburgh to attend my first Xen Project Developer Summit. It turned out quite different from my expectations, so I thought I’d share a bit about…
We are pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.1. The is the latest point release in the Xen 4.3 series of releases. Downloads: This is available immediately from its…
So, it was Fedora Virtualization Test Day last Tuesday and I actually went down and took the occasion for some good testing of Xen on the next Fedora release (Fedora…
All recordings of the Xen Project User Summit are now available
Last week, we announced the program for the Xen Project Developer Summit on the Xen Mailing lists. This year, we have a fantastic line-up covering topics from Xen Development, Cloud…
Xen has long history and many features. Sometimes even experienced developers cannot be sure whether their new code is regression-free. To make sure new code doesn’t cause regression, Ian Jackson…
The Xen Project was well represented at LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America. Sponsored by the Linux Foundation, the two co-located conferences featured a number of Xen-related talks, as…
Here is an update about feature completeness of QEMU compared to the old qemu-traditional. But first, what is the difference between QEMU and qemu-traditional? QEMU is the software that can…
The CfP for the Xen Project Developer Summit finished on Friday. I wanted to thank our Program Management Committee for putting in the effort to put together our program in…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.6.1. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.1.6.1) or from the Xen Project download pages. Note that…
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.3. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.2.3) or from the Xen Project download pages. This release…
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One of the stated goals for 2013 and 2014 of the Xen Project Advisory Board is to Increase upstream Xen Hypervisor quality including the quality of its latest CPU and…
I’ve recently returned from Debconf 13, in Vaumarcus in Switzerland. My colleague Ian Campbell joined me there. Debconf is the annual conference for contributors to Debian, with a few hundred…
If you are testing Xen in your environment, you probably already have images native to other hypervisors which you might like to test. So a common question is, “How can…
The following monologue explains how Linux drivers are able to program a device when running in a Xen virtual machine on ARM. The problem that needs to be solved is…
Some time ago Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (the Xen Linux maintainer) came up with a list of possible improvements to the Xen PV block protocol, which is used by Xen guests…
My name is Julien Grall. Â I joined the Citrix Open Source team few months ago to work on Xen on ARMÂ with Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini. Since Citrix has joined…
Xenproject.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.0. The release is available from the download page: Xen 4.3.0: Download, Source (tag RELEASE-4.3.0), release notes. Xen 4.3 is the…
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 was way too easy, and that’s why we are bringing the challenge to the next level: do you dare putting Schrödinger’s cat “in a virtual box”?
In other words, do you dare install Fedora 19 within a Xen virtual machine? And if yes, how about doing that using Fedora 19 itself as Dom0?
As many of you might have (inevitably) noticed, Xen frontend / backend network drivers in Linux suffered from regression several months back after the XSA-39 fix (various reports here, here…
Xen 4.3.0 time is approaching and, to make sure we’re delivering the best possible release, we are having another Xen TestDay on Friday, June 28 2013. (RSVP and iCal here)….
The Xen4CentOS6 project is a collaborative effort between the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen development teams, the CentOS Project team, GoDaddy Cloud operations group and RackSpace Hosting to package, deliver…