Cambridge, UK 8/9/2012 - Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.2, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is…
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After the success of Xen Document Days and with Xen 4.2 being close to release, we decided to trial Xen test Days. The first Xen Test Day will be on…
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As promised, here is the poll for the security discussion. As a reminder, the purpose of this poll is mainly to see where people's attitudes are with respect to the…
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It is time again for the XenSummit North America, which will start in 3 weeks. This year, XenSummit is conveniently co-located with CloudOpen and LinuxCon. If you use open source…
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The Xen community achieved a major milestone last summer when all the necessary components for Xen dom0 support made it into the upstream kernel for the 3.0 release. However, during…
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Last week we finally crossed the last major remaining issues off the Xen 4.2 TODO list. This means that the release plan now looks like this: 19 March — TODO…
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A short write-up of how Xen's presence at OSCON went this year. My personal highlights were: Xen.org finally has a proper booth that we can re-use at events, we had…
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We now have PCI passthrough support in QEMU upstream, this was one of the missing pieces needed to have a full featured QEMU device model. But there is still more…
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All of this week Ian Jackson and myself have been have been attending DebConf12 in Managua, Nicaragua. This is the annual conference of the Debian Project, hosted this year by…
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I have just published the XenSummit event agenda. We will have 30 talks in two tracks this year. And the line-up this year looks fantastic! Check it out.
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Xen.org recently released a number of (related) security updates, XSA-7 through to -9. This was done by the Xen.org Security Team who are charged with following the Xen.org Security Problem…
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It's been a while since the last 4.2 release update and a lot has changed since then, so I suppose it is time for another update. Way back at the…
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We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and…
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Most open source projects, Xen.org included, do what is called "coordinated disclosure" of security problems. The idea is that we keep security bugs secret until people have had a chance…
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I wanted to thank everybody who submitted a proposal to speak for XenSummit. This year we had the most submissions we ever had. The XenSummit PMC will have its first…
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The Xen Security team recently disclosed a vulnerability, Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217), which would allow guest administrators to escalate to hypervisor-level privileges. The impact is much wider than Xen;…
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This is a guest blog post by Georg Dörn, a long-time system administrator and open source enthusiast. Georg founded his company its-doern in 2008, to develop solutions for customers entirely…
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Just a quick reminder that, the CFP for XenSummit closes in a week and that all submissions must be received before midnight June 15, 2012 PDT. Suggested topics include: Latest…
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One of the goals for the 4.2 release is for xl to have feature parity with xm for the most important functions. But along the way, we've also been adding…
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This is a guest blog post by Patrick F. Wilbur, a long-time Xen user and active member of the Xen community. You might know me from Xen Day and Xen…
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We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. We introduced Documentation Days,…
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Over the past few months we have been working on improving the API for the libxl library. libxl is to become the base layer for all Xen toolstacks. We intend…
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A few months ago we started developing the new Xen.org website. It's time for an update! Most of the framework and look & feel are now in place. The main…
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Where were we? So, here it is what we said up to now. Basically: NUMA is becoming increasingly common; properly dealing with NUMA is important for performance; one can tweak…
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This post written collaboratively by Attilio Rao and George Dunlap Operating systems are generally written assuming that they are in direct control of the hardware. So when we run operating…
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