Xen Project (Hypervisor)

As in the past, the Xen Project will have a booth at Europe’s biggest open source conference FOSDEM (taking place February 3rd and 4th in Brussels, Belgium). Where? During FOSDEM community volunteers will man our booth, which is located in bulding K (level 1, group C). Meet the Team! You will have the opportunity to speak […]

I am pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.8.3. 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 repository xenbits.xenproject.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.8 (tag RELEASE-4.8.3) or from the Xen Project […] [Less]

This document has been updated since it was published! Updates are marked in blue. On January 3rd, 2018, Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on ... [More] their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next […] [Less]

On January 3rd, 2018, Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the ... [More] impact and our next steps forward, we put together the following FAQ. We divided the FAQ into several […] [Less]

Updated to v3 on Dec 12th! Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the following FAQ. Note that we will […]

Google’s Project Zero announced several information leak vulnerabilities affecting all modern superscalar processors. Details can be found on their blog, and in the Xen Project Advisory 254. To help our users understand the impact and our next steps forward, we put together the following FAQ. Note that we will update the FAQ as new information […]

Some recent patches to the QEMU source fix a long standing problem where the PV vkbd backend was unable to function correctly without the PV fb backend, which effectively made it pointless to implement PV HID (i.e. keyboard and mouse) frontends for HVM guests. Now that the problem has been fixed, I’m happy to announce […]

The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive space. This blog series highlights […]

The Xen Project is comprised of a diverse set of member companies and contributors that are committed to the growth and success of the Xen Project Hypervisor. The Xen Project Hypervisor is a staple technology for server and cloud vendors, and is gaining traction in the embedded, security and automotive space. This blog series highlights […]

I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. The Xen Project Hypervisor 4.10 continues to take a security-first approach ... [More] with improved architecture and more centralized documentation. The release is equipped with the latest hardware […] [Less]