Xen Project (XAPI)

The Xen4CentOS6 project is a collaborative effort between the Xen Project, the Citrix Xen development teams, the CentOS Project team, GoDaddy Cloud operations group and RackSpace Hosting to package, deliver and maintain a stable Xen hypervisor and ... [More] its related tooling for CentOS-6, enabling CentOS-6/x86_64 to be used as a dom0, base platform to host Xen [...] [Less]

Last week the proposed changes to the security policy were approved unanimously by the Xen committers; the policy has been updated accordingly. What this means is that now if you are “public hosting provider”, “vendor of Xen-based system”, or a “distributor of operating systems with Xen support”, regardless of your size, you may be eligible [...]

As it is widely know, really tough Open Source users –the ones that wear sandals, colored hats of various kind, and are equipped with long enough UNIX beards– always install software via tarballs and some good old ./configure-make-make-install-fu! ... [More] Then there are the developers, who couldn’t care less about installing: all that matters is from where [...] [Less]

Tomorrow morning GMT, we will be archiving xen.org. This means that the content on xen.org is being saved on www-archive.xenproject.org and permanent redirects to xenproject.org will be put in place. There will also be some changes to mailing lists.

With the release process for Xen 4.3 in full swing (we intend to release the third release candidate this week) and with the Xen Test Days initiative (the next one is this Wednesday 5 June, join us on IRC freenode #xentest) I thought it would be useful to offer up some information and guidance on [...]

Announcing the Call For Proposals for two of the biggest events on the Xen Project calendar for this year: Xen Project Users Summit September 18, 2013 at LinuxCon NA in New Orleans, LA Call For Proposals closes July 26 Co-located with LinuxCon North America in  New Orleans, The Xen Project User Summit is a community [...]

Over the next two weeks, there are no less than five great opportunities to hear about the Xen Project.  These include: The Linux Link Tech Show on May 29, 2013 Xen Project Evangelist Russ Pavlicek will be a guest of The Linux Link Tech Show crew.  This weekly webcast is streamed live at 8:30 PM [...]

After almost a week in Dublin, we’re back with a debrief of the Xen Hackathon. Please note this is from our point of view (Xen Orchestra team) and that we’re not kernel or hypervisor hackers. Google Docks: our place to work We were really impressed by Google’s building (Google Docks). The atmosphere was really relaxed, [...]

I’ve started to work on the Xen on ARM project by trying to get Xen running on the nice little Samsung Chromebook which run an ARM processor with the virtualization extensions. The Chromebook uses Exynos 5250 dual core platform with 2GB of RAM, which could be perfect for a good demo of Xen on ARM. [...]

A new RC of the Xen Hypervisor has just been announced by our release manager with this message on the xen-devel mailing list. In addition to the usual repository tagging (xen-4.3.0-rc2), a tarball is available (and here’s its signature). This happened right in time for the second Xen Test Day of the 4.3 release cycle, [...]