The Xen Project hypervisor has relied on a special virtual machine, Dom0, to perform privileged operations since the early days of the project. Dom0 has always been the very first…
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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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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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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…
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Docker is certainly the most influential open source project of the moment. Why is Docker so successful? Is it going to replace Virtual Machines? Will there be a big switch?…
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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…
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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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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…
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For the last several years, the Xen developer community has been increasing its ability to collaborate well with other projects. We succeeded in finally getting the necessary infrastructure for dom0…
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Two weeks ago today was the first day of Linaro Connect Asia: the event was held at the Gold Coast Hotel in Hong Kong and was similar in format and…
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A couple of weeks ago I went to Copenhagen to attend Linaro Connect and Ubuntu Developer Summit for the first time. I was really impressed by the size of the…
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Last weekend Linus Torvalds pulled the Xen on ARM patches in his Linux tree, so as of Saturday the 7th of October, we have Xen ARM in upstream Linux! This…
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Konrad and I have been representing Xen at KVM Forum and LinuxCon 2011 last week. First of all I want to thanks Alexander Graf, Anthony Liguori and all the other…
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Another guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Hi everybody, it’s midterm of Google Summer of Code now, let me tell you what…
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