Xen Project (Hypervisor)

The latest Project Golden Ratio data is not available for your review at http://www.xen.org/files/GoldenRatio/GR_Stats_April2010.pdf. In comparison, the final Q1 2010 statistics are available at ... [More] http://www.xen.org/files/GoldenRatio/March2010_GRStats.pdf. Here are some highlights for April 2010: Xen-users answer rate is 84.67% which shows good consistency in the community answer rate (low to mid 80s over 4 months) Xen.org Website traffic continues [...] [Less]

I have created a new page at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_spring_2010.html which will have all the slides and videos from Xen Summit at AMD. I have about 50% of the slides currently available.

I have received a few slides from presenters at Xen Summit and have posted them at SlideShare in the Xen Summit at AMD 2010 event page. You can access the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/event/xen-summit-na-at-amd-2010. I will continue to upload the slides on SlideShare as I receive them and will also add a new page to the Xen.org [...]

Xen Summit at AMD is over and I would like to thank all the speakers and attendees for making this a great conference. I am collecting all the presentations from the speakers and will be posting them on Monday next week. The conference was also filmed and I anticipate getting all the videos late next [...]

I have created a new page, Xen History Page, on the Xen.org website for those interested in learning more about the history of the Xen.org community and Xen hypervisor project. Please take a look and if you have content to add, please let me know.

Virtualization software reached another milestone on its road to becoming a pervasive technology with the release of Xen 4.0 by Xen.org (you can find the full announcement here).   It was just 7 short years ago in 2003 that the Xen 1.0 architecture was introduced in the paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization released by [...]

The Xen.org community, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, is pleased to be working directly with an important corporate member of our community, AMD, for our Xen Summit North America event. Hosted twice a year, Xen Summit events in North America ... [More] and Asia allow Xen developers, customers, and virtualization technologists to gather and discuss [...] [Less]

Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News Xen Summit North America at AMD – April 28-29; Be Sure To ... [More] Attend Xen.org Mascot Contest – Vote for your favorite finalist-  http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/04/12/xen-org-mascot-contest-vote-for-your-favorite/ Latest Voting Results: Bonsai [...] [Less]

t’s a fast-moving world. I turn my back for a moment to log onto my XenDesktop, and before you know it, the Planet turns to KVM for Cloud Virtualization. Suddenly all those Xen, VMware and Hyper-V users must have switched to KVM overnight! Impressive. I quickly check the XenServer download stats and see [...]

Version 1.2 of the XCP migration utility is now available at: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_projects.html Release highlight is the ability to migrate PV VMs that load kernel/ramdisk from the Dom0(without pygrub). In order for the script to ... [More] automatically SFTP the kernel/ramdisk to the server( using --sftp ), you will need the paramiko module: http://www.lag.net/paramiko. You can also SCP/SFTP the kernel/ramdisk manually, this will definitely [...] [Less]