XCP is Dead; Long Live XenServer! Last year was a momentous year for all things related to the Xen Project. 2013 saw Xen Project become a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. It also saw the separate XenServer project become Open Source under the auspices of Citrix Systems. And,
I am pleased to announce the schedule of the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014. The Project’s second annual developer event highlights best practices, user testimonials and advancements with the industry-leading open source hypervisor. Powering many of the world’s
Virtualization Experts Come Together to Accelerate Xen Project Innovation With Microservers, Hyperscale Computing and Embedded Applications SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, 2014 – The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced the presenters and full program for the Xen Project Developer Summit annual conference that unites developers, integrators
With Xen on ARM getting out of the early preview phase and becoming more mature, it is time to run a few benchmarks to check that the design choices paid out, the architecture is sound and the code base is solid. It is time to find out how much is
We’re excited to welcome Cavium as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project with eleven founding members, we announced five new members, including ARM, NetApp, Rackspace and Verizon Terremark. Today’s announcement of Cavium’s ThunderX™ SoC Family, a scalable family
Semiconductor Company Leverages Networking and Security Legacy To Advance Xen Project Hypervisor on ARM® Roadmap SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2014–The Xen Project Collaborative Project hosted at the Linux Foundation today announced Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a semiconductor products company to enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired
The month of June has a variety of Xen Project talks available to conference attendees across the United States: CentOS Dojo, Cincinnati Ohio, June 4 First, for people in the Cincinnati Ohio area, there is the CentOS Dojo meeting on Wednesday, June 4. At 1:30 PM, Xen Project
We’re excited to welcome Rackspace as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project about a year ago, we’ve announced four new members, including ARM, NetApp and Verizon Terremark. Rackspace has used Xen Project virtualization software since 2006. The company’s
Using CentOS 6 as the Control Domain for the Xen Project Hypervisor Lots of hosting companies and other service providers settled on combination of the Xen Project Hypervisor and CentOS as a platform for their virtualization needs. Unfortunately, CentOS 6 brings with it the same kernel as RHEL 6
The Xen Project Developer Summit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open for two more days until May 16, 2014 11:55pm (EST). Our Program Management Committee I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program Management Committee. * Amir Chaudhry (University of Cambridge): Amir
New CentOS SIG Welcomes Developers Involved With Any Virtualization Technology SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2014–The Xen Project community, a Collaborative Project hosted at The Linux Foundation, today announced it recently helped kickstart the new CentOS Virtualization Special Interest Group (Virt SIG) open to developers contributing to any server virtualization
With the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.4 released a bit more than a month ago, the project is planning for version 4.5, so it’s a good time to outline how we manage releases. New Release Manager: Welcoming Oracle’s Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk But first I want to thank