In 2013, we held the first major Xen event aimed specifically at users: the Xen Project User Summit. In 2014, we want to do it again — but where and when? The Xen Project wants to hold its second Xen Project User Summit. We’d like to hold it somewhere
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 unless one has aviation experience they are unlikely to have ever encountered it. The scheduler was created
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. You can get started by following the install instructions and creating your own webserver to host a static
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 the ARM platform. As always LWN have a pretty good summary (currently subscribers only, becomes freely available on 5 December)
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 the RT-Xen project. Recent years have seen increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments (for example, the Xen-ARM
What do a chameleon, a panda, and a mouse have in common? More than you might imagine, unless you were present at SUSECon and the openSUSE Summit at the Walt Disney Coronado Springs resort last week in Florida. During the week, it was clear that the SUSE chameleon
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 Developer Summit a success and am looking forward to next year’s event. A few Highlights Will Auld
Talks Welcome & Community Roundup Lars Kurth, Citrix Presentation Video Xen Project Development Update George Dunlap, Citrix Xen 4.3 was the first release with our new “release coordinator” role during the whole development cycle. This talk will review some ways in which the process worked well for 4.3,
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 1st The Call for Papers for the DevRoom will be open until December 1st. The scope for this devroom
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 my experience. When I first saw the call for participation I wasn’t sure that I had anything sufficiently
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 git repository: xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.3
Xen Hypervisor development started at Cambridge University as part of the Xenoserver research project in the late 90’s. The goal of Xenoserver was ambitious: The Xenoserver project is building a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed computing. We envisage a world in which Xenoserver execution platforms will be scattered across