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
OPW Poster The Xen Project is pleased to announce that the Xen Project Advisory Board will be sponsoring one intern for Round 7 of the Gnome Outreach Program For Women. The Outreach Program for Women (OPW) internships were inspired in many ways by Google Summer of Code and by how
For those community members, who could not attend the Xen Project User Summit in New Orleans, we now published all the videos on our video stream. For your convenience, we also created a portal page that links to all recordings of the user summit. Again, a big Thank You to
Last week, we announced the program for the Xen Project Developer Summit on the Xen Mailing lists. This year, we have a fantastic line-up covering topics from Xen Development, Cloud Computing, Xen on Mobile Devices, Graphics Virtualization and new and interesting use-cases for Xen. Half of the available spaces are
Xen has long history and many features. Sometimes even experienced developers cannot be sure whether their new code is regression-free. To make sure new code doesn’t cause regression, Ian Jackson developed a test framework called OSSTest. In order to make this framework usable for individual ad-hoc testing, standalone mode
The Xen Project was well represented at LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America. Sponsored by the Linux Foundation, the two co-located conferences featured a number of Xen-related talks, as well as the first Xen Project User Summit (which will be discussed at length in a post to follow)
Here is an update about feature completeness of QEMU compared to the old qemu-traditional. But first, what is the difference between QEMU and qemu-traditional? QEMU is the software that can be found at qemu.org, we can also call it QEMU upstream. It’s where all new features are supposed
The CfP for the Xen Project Developer Summit finished on Friday. I wanted to thank our Program Management Committee for putting in the effort to put together our program in record time. This was no easy task: we had nearly 50 extremely high quality submissions this year. Despite restricting talks
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.6.1. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.1.6.1) or from the Xen Project download pages. Note that 4.1.6 did not get released, as a build issue was
I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.3. This is available immediately from its git repository xenbits.xen.org (tag RELEASE-4.2.3) or from the Xen Project download pages. This release fixes the following critical vulnerabilities: * CVE-2013-1918 / XSA-45: Several long latency operations are not preemptible