Xen Project (XAPI)

Last week I was in Edinburgh to attend my first Xen Project Developer Summit. It turned out quite different from my expectations, so I thought I’d share a bit about my experience. When I first saw the call for participation I wasn’t sure that I had anything sufficiently relevant to contribute that would be of [...]

We are pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.3.1.  The is the latest point release in the Xen 4.3 series of releases. Downloads: This is available immediately from its git repository: ... [More] http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable-4.3 (tag RELEASE-4.3.1). It is also available for download from the XenProject.org website: http://xenproject.org/downloads/xen-archives/supported-xen-43-series/xen-431.html Fixes: This fixes the following critical vulnerabilities: * CVE-2013-1922 [...] [Less]

Xen Hypervisor development started at Cambridge University as part of the Xenoserver research project in the late 90’s. The goal of Xenoserver was ambitious: The Xenoserver project is building a public infrastructure for wide-area distributed ... [More] computing. We envisage a world in which Xenoserver execution platforms will be scattered across the globe and available for any [...] [Less]

The Xen Project is pleased to announce that the Xen Project Advisory Board will be sponsoring one intern for Round 7 of the Gnome Outreach Program For Women. Apply by November 11!

So, it was Fedora Virtualization Test Day last Tuesday and I actually went down and took the occasion for some good testing of Xen on the next Fedora release (Fedora 20, codename Heisenbug). Fedora is going to ship Xen 4.3 (and there are not many other mainstream distribution doing that), so it is very important [...]

All recordings of the Xen Project User Summit are now available

Yes, today (Tuesday, October 8th) is one of the Fedora 20 Test Days, more specifically, Virtualization Test Day. Specific information regarding testing Xen on the new Fedora can be found in this Wiki page. For attending and participating, join us now on IRC at #fedora-test-day (Freenode)! Fedora 20 will be one of the first mainstream [...]

Last week, we announced the program for the Xen Project Developer Summit on the Xen Mailing lists. This year, we have a fantastic line-up covering topics from Xen Development, Cloud Computing, Xen on Mobile Devices, Graphics Virtualization and new and interesting use-cases for Xen. Half of the available spaces are already gone: if you were [...]

Xen has long history and many features. Sometimes even experienced developers cannot be sure whether their new code is regression-free. To make sure new code doesn’t cause regression, Ian Jackson developed a test framework called OSSTest. In order to ... [More] make this framework usable for individual ad-hoc testing, standalone mode was introduced. Recently I played with [...] [Less]

The Xen Project was well represented at LinuxCon North America and CloudOpen North America.  Sponsored by the Linux Foundation, the two co-located conferences featured a number of Xen-related talks, as well as the first Xen Project User Summit (which will be discussed at length in a post to follow). Lars Kurth gave a well-received talk [...]