The Xen4CentOS6 project is a collaborative effort between the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen development teams, the CentOS Project team, GoDaddy Cloud operations group and RackSpace Hosting to package, deliver and maintain a stable Xen hypervisor and its related tooling for CentOS-6, enabling CentOS-6/x86_64 to be used as
We proudly announce that the Xen 4.3 RC-cycle has just started, with the tagging of 4.3.0-rc1 in our repository. Read the official announcement from George on xen-devel here. A tarball has been made available for ease and speed-up testing: Xen 4.3.0 RC1 Tarball (andÂ
Xen.org blog already hosted a very nice post by Ian Jackson, greatly explaining how useful xen-tools is for automatically installing Debian (and Debian-derived) VMs. Now, if this all happens on a Debian host, it is nice and easy, as getting xen-tools is just a matter of apt-get install-ing it.
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 makes Xen the first hypervisor supported by Linux on the ARM platform! Working on ARM has been a very pleasant
This is another post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering Xen integrations with Apache Cloudstack and OpenStack: * Xen and CloudStack: Ewan Mellor describes the CloudStack project and explains why Xen is the pre-eminent hypervisor in public clouds today. He describes the
This is the second blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering seemingly unrelated topics – but you will realize they are not unrelated: * The new PV in an HVM container virtualization mode (or PVH) proposed and developed by Mukesh Rathor, Oracle:
Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. The release is available from the download page: * Xen Hypervisor 4.2.0: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.2.0) This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of
This will be the first blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week we will cover project roadmap and futures presentations. Note that you can download all presentations in a zip file. Sexy World of the Linux pvops project Also see: * Presentation Xen Cloud Platform
There’s been a lot of good progress in the Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions port since I first blogged about it here. Thanks to some recent work, mainly by Stefano Stabellini, we are now able to start our first guest domain, including paravirtual console disk and network devices!
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; many other operating systems seem to have the same vulnerability, including NetBSD, FreeBSD, some versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows
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
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