Xen Project (Hypervisor)

Going to FOSDEM’14? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. There are 4 of them, and they will provide some details about new and interesting usecases for virtualization, like in embedded systems of various kind (from [...]

2013 has been a year of changes for the Xen Community. I wanted to share my five personal highlights of the year. But before I do this, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the Xen Project in 2013 and the years before. Open Source is about bringing together technology and people : without [...]

In 2013, we held the first major Xen event aimed specifically at users: the Xen Project User Summit. In 2014, we want to do it again — but where and when? The Xen Project wants to hold its second Xen Project User Summit.  We’d like to hold it somewhere which is accessible by a large [...]

The Xen ARINC 653 scheduler is a real time scheduler that has been in Xen since 4.1.0.  It is a cyclic executive scheduler with a specific usage in mind, so unless one has aviation experience they are unlikely to have ever encountered it. The scheduler was created and is currently maintained by DornerWorks. Background The [...]

We’re very pleased to announce the release of Mirage OS 1.0. This is the first major release of Mirage OS and represents several years of development, testing and community building. You can get started by following the install instructions and creating your own webserver to host a static website! Also check out the release notes [...]

ACPI vs. Device Tree on ARM Some of you may have seen the recent discussions on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list (and others) about the use of ACPI vs DT on the ARM platform. As always LWN have a pretty good summary (currently subscribers only, becomes freely available on 5 December) of the situation with ACPI [...]

The researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Pennsylvania are pleased to announce, here on this blog, the release of a new and greatly improved version of the RT-Xen project. Recent years have seen increasing demand for ... [More] supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments (for example, the Xen-ARM projects and several other real-time enhancements to [...] [Less]

What do a chameleon, a panda, and a mouse have in common?  More than you might imagine, unless you were present at SUSECon and the openSUSE Summit at the Walt Disney Coronado Springs resort last week in Florida.  During the week, it was clear that the SUSE chameleon and Xen panda could happily coexist in [...]

Most of the Xen Project Developer Summit Videos and Presentations are now live on Xenproject.org. I wanted to thank all our speakers and attendees for making this year’s Xen project Developer Summit a success and am looking forward to next year’s event. A couple of Highlights Note that we will be running a series of [...]

We are pleased to announce that the Xen Project will co-host a two-day Virtualisation and IaaS DevRoom at FOSDEM’14, alongside Redhat and the Openstack Foundation. Call for Papers: Closes December 1st The Call for Papers for the DevRoom will be open until December 1st. The scope for this devroom is open source, openly-developed projects in [...]