Xen Project (XAPI)

If you use — or are just interested in learning about — the Xen Project Hypervisor, you will want to mark your calendar now for two great events coming later this summer. September 15: Xen Project User Summit, New York City, NY The Xen Project User Summit is great for: Users who employ Xen Project [...]

We normally only cover news and information directly related to Xen in this channel, but we thought it might be useful to briefly expand our scope a bit to mention the recent discussion about the Docker security exploit. What’s the news? Well to begin with, a few weeks ago Docker 1.0 was released, just in [...]

I’ve been release coordinator for Xen’s 4.3 and 4.4 releases. For the 4.5 release, I’ve handed this role off to Konrad Wilk, from Oracle. In this blog, I try to capture some of my thoughts and experience about one aspect of release management: deciding what patches to accept during a freeze. I have three goals [...]

I am pleased to announce the schedule of the Xen Project Developer Summit. The event will take place in Chicago on August 18-19, 2014. The Project’s second annual developer event highlights best practices, user testimonials and advancements with the ... [More] industry-leading open source hypervisor. Powering many of the world’s largest clouds in production today, Xen Project [...] [Less]

With Xen on ARM getting out of the early preview phase and becoming more mature, it is time to run a few benchmarks to check that the design choices paid out, the architecture is sound and the code base is solid. It is time to find out how much is the overhead introduced by Xen [...]

We’re excited to welcome Cavium as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project with eleven founding members, we announced five new members, including ARM, NetApp, Rackspace and Verizon ... [More] Terremark. Today’s announcement of Cavium’s ThunderX™ SoC Family, a scalable family of 64-bit ARMv8 processors incorporated into a highly [...] [Less]

The month of June has a variety of Xen Project talks available to conference attendees across the United States: CentOS Dojo, Cincinnati Ohio, June 4 First, for people in the Cincinnati Ohio area, there is the CentOS Dojo meeting on Wednesday, June 4.  At 1:30 PM, Xen Project Evangelist Russell Pavlicek will speak on “Using [...]

We’re excited to welcome Rackspace as our newest Xen Project Advisory Board member today. Since becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project about a year ago, we’ve announced four new members, including ARM, NetApp and Verizon Terremark. ... [More] Rackspace has used Xen Project virtualization software since 2006. The company’s public cloud business supports hundreds of thousands of [...] [Less]

Using CentOS 6 as the Control Domain for the Xen Project Hypervisor Lots of hosting companies and other service providers settled on combination of the Xen Project Hypervisor and CentOS as a platform for their virtualization needs.  Unfortunately, CentOS 6 brings with it the same kernel as RHEL 6 — a kernel which lacks support [...]

The Xen Project Developer Summit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open for two more days until May 16, 2014 11:55pm (EST). Our Program Management Committee I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program ... [More] Management Committee. Amir Chaudhry (University of Cambridge): Amir is a post-doc at the Cambridge Computer [...] [Less]