The hypervisor team has come to the conclusion that using the C programming language, which is 45 years old as of writing, is not a good idea for the long…
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Xen on ARM is becoming more and more widespread in embedded environments. In these contexts, Xen is employed as a single solution to partition the system into multiple domains, fully…
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We’re excited to announce that registration and the call for proposals is open for Xen Project Developer and Design Summit 2017, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary from…
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I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.6.5 and 4.7.2. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users…
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This is a quick announcement that the Xen Project is again participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a program that awards three-month paid stipends to University students to work…
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Innovative unikernel open source project increases commercial use cases and improves ease of use with contributions from Docker, IBM, Citrix and more SAN FRANCISCO, February 23, 2016 – The Xen…
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A software environment’s attack surface is defined as the sum of points in which an unauthorized user or malicious adversary can enter or extract data. The smaller the attack surface,…
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Issuing advisories has a cost: It costs the security team significant amounts of time to craft and send the advisories; it costs many of our downstreams time to apply, build,…
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A challenge for any cloud installation is the constant tradeoff of availability versus security. In general, the more fluid your cloud system (i.e., making virtualized resources available on demand more…
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It’s that time of the year again - FOSDEM is coming to Brussels February 4 - 5 and the Xen Project team will be attending again. We’ll be at a…
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The modern trend towards cloud-native apps seems to be set to kill hypervisors with a long slow death. Paradoxically, it is the massive success of hypervisors and infrastructure-as-a-service during the…
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Embedded systems become virtualized, IoT security concerns continue and the container community diversifies... What else will happen to the hypervisor and beyond in 2017? Two members of the Xen Project, Stefano…
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A world leader in next-generation wireless technologies joins open source project to accelerate ARM-server and hyperscale cloud development SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2016 - The Xen Project, a project hosted…
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I’m pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. One area…
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Updates focus on ARM server enhancements, security hardening and quality code SAN FRANCISCO, December 7, 2016 – The Xen Project, hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced the release of Xen…
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Dear community members, I'm pleased to announce that Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com> will be the Release Manager for the next Xen release. The appointment was voted by the Committers and the…
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Today the Xen Project announced eight security advisories: XSA-191 to XSA-198. The bulk of these security advisories were discovered and fixed during the hardening phase of the Xen Project Hypervisor…
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I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.6.4 and 4.7.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users…
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On Monday, we created Xen 4.8 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every week, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen…
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The Xen Project descended on Toronto, Canada in late August for its annual Xen Project Developer Summit. The Summit is an opportunity for developers and software engineers to collaborate and…
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I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.5.5. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the…
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Let's take a step back and look at the current state of virtualization in the software industry. X86 hypervisors were built to run a few different operating systems on the…
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The article from Lars Kurth, the Xen Project chairperson, was first published on Linux.com. A few weeks ago, Citrix and Bitdefender launched XenServer 7 and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection, which together…
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Last year, we really enjoyed co-hosting a hackathon and social event with the KVM community. It spurred really interesting conversations, a bit of friendly competition and some community bonding. Back…
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The following Q&A with Lars Kurth, the Xen Project chairperson, was first published on Linux.com. Xen Project technology supports more than 10 million users and is a staple in some…
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