Xen Project (Hypervisor)

This is the second part of the Xen Project Hypervisor series on power management. The first article focused on how virtualization and power management are coalescing into an energy-aware hypervisor. In this post, the focus is on a project that was started to lay the foundation for full-scale power management for applications involving the Xen […]

Power management in the Xen Project Hypervisor historically targets server applications to improve power consumption and heat management in data centers reducing electricity and cooling costs. In the embedded space, the Xen Project Hypervisor faces ... [More] very different applications, architectures and power-related requirements, which focus on battery life, heat, and size. Although the same fundamental principles […] [Less]

I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.8.4. Xen Project maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.8 stable series update to the latest point release. The release is ... [More] available from its git repositories xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.8 (tag RELEASE-4.8.4) or from the Xen […] [Less]

I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.11. One of our long-term development goals since the introduction of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 has been to create a cleaner architecture for core technology, less code and a smaller computing base for security and performance. The Xen 4.11 release has followed this […]

I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.7.6. Xen Project maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.7 stable series update to the latest point release. The release is ... [More] available from its git repositories xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.7 (tag RELEASE-4.7.6) or from the Xen […] [Less]

This blog post comes from Stewart Sentanoe of the University of Passau. Stewart is a PhD student and he was recently a Google Summer of Code Intern working on the Honeynet Project.  Project Introduction Virtual Machine Introspection Virtual Machine ... [More] Introspection (VMI) is the process of examining and monitoring a virtual machine from the hypervisor or virtual machine […] [Less]

Today, we are excited to announce the program and speakers for the Xen Project Developer and Design Summit. The summit brings together developers, engineers, and Xen Project power users for in-person collaboration and educational presentations. The ... [More] event will take place in Nanjing Jiangning, China from June 20 -22, 2018. This is the fifth annual Xen […] [Less]

I am pleased to announce the release of 4.10.1. Xen Project Maintenance releases are released in line with our Maintenance Release Policy. We recommend that all users of the 4.10 stable series update to the latest point release. These releases are ... [More] available from their git repositories xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.10 (tag RELEASE-4.10.1) or from the XenProject download page […] [Less]

We received a lot of amazing submissions for our summer Outreachy internship program and have accepted Dafna Hirschfeld to join us in creating new execution targets for Unikraft. Unikraft is a Xen Project incubation project that aims to simplify the ... [More] process of building unikernels through a unified and customizable code base. Currently, Unikraft supports building […] [Less]

On Tuesday, we created Xen 4.11 RC1 and will release a new release candidate every FRIDAY, until we declare a release candidate as the final candidate and cut the Xen 4.11 release. We will also hold a Test Day every TUESDAY for the release candidate that was released the week prior to the Test Day […]