Last week, has been a great week for our community. We had the Xen Developer Meeting, XenSummit and a presence at Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon and CloudOpen. It has been a very busy week, and I apologize for not reporting back to you earlier. We have uploaded most XenSummit presentations
Just a quick update on the Xen 4.2 release. 4.2.0-rc3 was released on 23 August and we intend to release rc4 around the end of the week. Barring any last minute critical bug reports our intention is that rc4 will be the final release candidate. * 19 March
I’d like talk about the xen-tools package, which is found in Debian-derived distros. It’s a straightforward Xen VM provisioning tool with an unusual but attractive approach. I use it in the Xen.org automated testing system, for installing Debian-derived test VMs. And I run it by hand from
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!
Just a quick reminder that the first Xen Test Day is today, August 14th. The focus of the test day is to test Xen 4.2 RC2, in your environment with a special focus on XL (given that XEND is formally deprecated with Xen 4.2). It is an on-line
Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.0.4 and 4.1.3. These are available immediately from the download pages * Xen Hypervisor 4.1.3: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.1.3) * Xen Hypervisor 4.0.4: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.0.4) We
Cambridge, UK 8/9/2012 – Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.2, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective effort of a global development team representing many leading technology vendors, universities, and virtualization experts.
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After the success of Xen Document Days and with Xen 4.2 being close to release, we decided to trial Xen test Days. The first Xen Test Day will be on Tuesday, August 14th, on IRC freenode channel #xentest. The plan is to test Xen 4.2 RC2, whic h
As promised, here is the poll for the security discussion. As a reminder, the purpose of this poll is mainly to see where people’s attitudes are with respect to the various options, so that we can move the discussion forward towards a conclusion. If you have any interested at
It is time again for the XenSummit North America, which will start in 3 weeks. This year, XenSummit is conveniently co-located with CloudOpen and LinuxCon. If you use open source Xen, Huawei UVP, Oracle VM, XenServer, XenClient or other Xen derived products and want to see where the Xen open
The Xen community achieved a major milestone last summer when all the necessary components for Xen dom0 support made it into the upstream kernel for the 3.0 release. However, during that process developers were focused on functionality, and not on performance. As a result a handful of performance regressions