It’s been a very busy month or so for the Xen Project. During mid-June, I was lucky to attend and speak at LinuxCon + ContainerCon China held in Beijing. There I spoke on the topic of securing embedded systems with the hypervisor and live patching, virtual machine introspection and vulnerability
Xen Community: I often see requests from various people for information on where certain features are located within the Xen source code. To assist those people, I have been working on (and still am) a Xen Source Code Guide for the newly released Xen 3.4 source code. I expect
Xen.org is pleased to announce the latest release of the Xen hypervisor, the open source industry standard for virtualization. Xen.org is a global community of independent and industry developers, university researchers, users, and virtualization gurus who regularly contribute to the shared design, development, support, and improvement of the
The third release candidate for Xen 3.4.0 is available at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg, tagged as ‘3.4.0-rc3’. Please test! Hopefully we are close to final release now.
With Xen 3.4 in test for final release shortly, it is time to submit your feature requests for the next release, Xen 4.0. The current product roadmap is at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html and will be updated with the new features you submit once Xen
As the community begins the work to close down Xen 3.4 and finalize testing, I would like to reach out to the developers who have written new features or improved existing services so I can get a complete feature update list and start working on creating short blog entries
To Xen customers: If you are using Xen, either as a direct download from the Xen.org site or from a partner who is leveraging Xen as their virtualization engine (e.g. Oracle, RedHat, Novell, Sun, etc) they I am looking for you. The Xen development community is actively looking
For those of you interested in the next release of Xen, a new list of features is being compiled at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html. If you have any ideas you would like added, please email myself or xen-devel so the information can be added to this roadmap
With Xen 3.3 in final testing, it is time to start thinking about what features you would like to see in Xen 3.4. If you have any ideas for Xen 3.4, please send an email to xen-devel with Xen 3.4 in the subject line. This will