After spending almost a week in Shanghai for the Xen Project Hackathon it is time to write up some notes. More than 48 delegates from Alibaba, Citrix, Desay SV Automotive, GlobalLogic, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, Oracle, Suse and Visteon Electronics attended the event, which covered a wide range of topics. I

With several companies introducing ARM servers recently, cloud providers and enterprise datacenters are excited to see new alternatives for reducing costs and power use come to market. Cavium, a semiconductor leader with a long heritage in security and wireless/ networking, entered the race with the introduction of ThunderXâ„¢ the industryâ€

Intel’s Virtualization Architect Donald Dugger started working on Xen Project software eight years ago. We recently interviewed Don to find out why Intel continues to support, contribute and invest in the Xen Project. One of the first companies to contribute to hardware-assisted virtualization, today Intel remains equally focused

If we used code-names, the Xen 4.5 release should be called Panda on Diet! We have 78K new code with 141K deleted. In effect this release has -63KLOC code than the previous one. The net effect of a skinnier Xen Project Hypervisor code base is increased usability, simplicity and

Improved ARM server and Intel hardware support advance open source virtualization with new workloads and embedded use cases SAN FRANCISCO, January 15, 2015 –The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced availability of Xen Project Hypervisor version 4.5. The latest release builds on Xen Project

Our Last Scheduled 4.5 Release Candidate Testing is on Wednesday The Test Day for 4.5 RC4 has been set for this Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Test Days insure that the upcoming release is ready for production. It also allows all users to test out the upcoming release in

After several days offline, the Xen Project blog has returned! Our blog had been subjected to malicious activities, so we had to take it down and remedy the situation. We’re back now, and although there are a few minor issues to address, we are ready to move forward. A

GlogalLogic To Build on Early Contributions And Spearhead New Development CHICAGO — Xen Project Developer Summit — Aug. 18, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation today announced a new Embedded and Automotive initiative. Successful in running the world’s largest clouds and first to market with ARM

Event to Discuss Virtualization Innovation and Best Practices With Cloud Computing and Security SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the presenters and full program for the Xen Project User Summit that gathers developers, integrators and power users for in-person

Lightweight Mirage OS Improves Distributed Storage, Security and Networking Functionality for ARM-based Embedded Devices Portland, Ore. — OSCON — July 22, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the release of Mirage OS v2.0, which includes the industry’s first software framework that unifies cloud