Xen Project (Hypervisor)

Yesterday was the CentOS Dojo Antwerp 2013, were I delivered a talk about tuning Xen for better performance. The event was very interesting, lots of talks specially oriented at system administrators, so the Xen.org team didn’t want to miss this great ... [More] opportunity to speak about Xen, especially considering that, not long ago, the first packages of Xen for CentOS [...] [Less]

The first edition of the CentOS Dojo takes place on Monday  8th April at the Don Bosco School, Antwerp and Roger Pau Monné is running a Xen specific session there. Synopsis of his talk, titled ‘Perfomance tuning Xen’ : How to tune your Xen deployment for performance: Xen has several options and different kinds of [...]

For the last several years, the Xen developer community has been increasing its ability to collaborate well with other projects. We succeeded in finally getting the necessary infrastructure for dom0 support into Linux in 2011. We have upstreamed the most important changes to QEMU, and will be using an upstream QEMU based tree in the [...]

Maybe you heard few years ago, a project called Xen Orchesta. It was designed to provide a web interface for Xen hypervisor with Xend backend. The project started in 2009, but paused one year later, due to lack of time from the original designer. As you can read on the project website, XO is now [...]

The following has been posted on the xen-devel and xen-users mailing lists. Executive summary The number of event channels available for dom0 is currently one of the biggest limitations on scaling up the number of VMs which can be created on a single system. There are two alternative implementations we could choose, one of which [...]

We have another Xen Document Day coming next Monday, which is March 25th. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! For a list of items that need work, check out the community maintained TODO and wishlist. [...]

Two weeks ago today was the first day of Linaro Connect Asia: the event was held at the Gold Coast Hotel in Hong Kong and was similar in format and attendance to the previous one in Copenhagen. All the major players in the ARM world came together to speak about the future of the industry [...]

Background and Motivation This blog already hosted a couple of stories about what is going on, in the Xen development community, regarding improving Xen NUMA support. Therefore, if you really are interested in some background and motivation, feel free to check them out: NUMA and Xen: Part I, Introduction NUMA and Xen: Part II, Scheduling [...]

I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by the Ganeti team at Google and takes place on May 16-17, 2013 at Google’s offices in Dublin Ireland. You can find the exact address and hotel options at the events page and can also request an invite from there. I wanted [...]

I’ve started working on Alpine Linux and Xen integration some time ago, when I was working as a research assistant at UPC, my college. We had just bought some blades and we needed to deploy Xen on them easily. We realized this blades contained a SD and USB slot, which could be used as a [...]