Monday we closed the poll for the security discussion. Thank you everyone who participated! The process has not turned up a hidden option that everyone agreed on; however, it has helped find what I hope will be a “median” option which best addresses the concerns and desires as the community
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. – John Godfrey Saxe, 1869. 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
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 training events in the past, or perhaps from the Running Xen book. I recently taught a lesson in an operating
Hi everyone! I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student who is pursuing his master’s degree from China. If you read posts on blog.xen.org from time to time, you might remember me. I was participant of Google Summer of Code 2011 and worked on “Virtio on Xen” project
Dear Community Members, Just a quick reminder that, the CFP for XenSummit is open and that all submissions must be received before midnight May 1, 2012 PDT. You have one month to get your submissions in. Note that this is much earlier than in previous years! I will also shortly
It took me a while to write up my impressions from the first Oracle hosted Hackathon last week: I have to apologize for not being timelier. First, I wanted to thank Oracle for hosting the event and providing a beautiful venue in Santa Clara. Special thanks go to Doan Nguyen
The XCP team would like to announce Project Zeus, our port of the XCP toolstack to Fedora and CentOS (through the EPEL). This is a follow-on to Project Kronos, which brought the XCP toolstack to Debian-based systems. This will give users the ability to do ‘yum install xcp-xapi’ to build
Dear Xen Developers, I wanted to announce that Ian Campbell from Citrix has been nominated and elected as Xen Hypervisor committer and will be responsible for the ARMv7+VE components in xen-unstable. We have seen an increasing number of patches to xen-unstable to enable support for the ARMv7 processor with
Linux 3.2 Linux 3.2 was released on Jan 4th and compared to earlier kernel releases, this one was very focused on fixing bugs reported by the community. Thank you!! Issues that caused lots of bug reports were: * The xen-platform-pci module (used for HVM guest to enable PV drivers)
I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by Oracle and takes place March 6-8, 2012 at the Oracle Campus in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you want to attend, save the date and add yourself to the wiki. I wanted to thank Oracle
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of these projects are examples of standing on the shoulders of giants. * In 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge announced the plan
Generated Xen Documentation As you may remember from the last two Xen Documentation Days, we looked at creating Xen documentation from source. This has now been implemented and * Xen Manual Pages * Auxiliary Pages to Man Pages * API and Protocol Documentation are available from the xen.org website as well as