Xen Project (XAPI)

This is just a quick note to you all, to outline the transition and timetable from the old xen.org main website to the new xenproject.org site. Other sites, such as lists.xen.org, blog.xen.org, wiki.xen.org and others will follow. What will happen? ... [More] The xen.org site, will be moved to www-archive.xenproject.org and all pages will clearly be marked [...] [Less]

In April, Xen unveiled a new community site at xenproject.org. Xen Project leaders worked closely with CloudAccess.net in the development of their new online home, built using Joomla. CloudAccess.net is the official host of demo.joomla.org and one of ... [More] the countless cloud-based companies that benefits from Xen technologies. Thousands of users launch free trials of the Joomla CMS through [...] [Less]

Several Xen Project Governance changes are ready for review or voting: Xen Project Governance v2, Xen Security Problem Response Process v2, Mailing List Conventions v1 and dates and locations for 2014 events.

At the Linux Foundation Collaborative Summit in April, the Xen Project announced that it was now a Collaborative Project of the Linux Foundation.  But as people attended some of the Xen-related conference sessions, one question always seemed to be asked: “Why should I use Xen?” There is an answer – but it varies depending on [...]

We proudly announce that the Xen 4.3 RC-cycle has just started, with the tagging of 4.3.0-rc1 in our repository. Read the official announcement from George on xen-devel here. A tarball has been made available for ease and speed-up testing: Xen 4.3.0 ... [More] RC1 Tarball (and signature). For more detailed instructions on how to effectively test this first release candidate, [...] [Less]

Mike Dorman will be talking about Leveraging CentOS and Xen for the GoDaddy private cloud: How we collaborated with the CentOS and Xen projects to build a next-generation platform at GoDaddy. Discussion of the design considerations, infrastructure ... [More] , success stories and challenges of this paradigm change at the next CentOS Dojo taking place in Phoenix, AZ, [...] [Less]

We are pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.1.5 and 4.2.2 maintenance releases. Also note that the next Xen Document Day is on Monday, April 29th and that we have Xen 4.3 Test Days scheduled for May 8th, 22nd and June 5th.

Just a quick update — we have passed the feature freeze, and are now beginning the code freeze, in our schedule to get Xen 4.3 out by mid-June. Is say “beginning the code freeze” because it is still possible to get new code in for a short time now; but each case requires an explicit [...]

The move of the Xen Project from Citrix to a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project will have a number of implications for Xen Websites, which will be fully implemented in the coming weeks. For trademark reasons all xen.org sites will be migrated to the xenproject.org domain in the coming weeks. This will require care and be [...]

Almost a year ago, I floated the idea within Citrix of finding a non-profit home for the Xen Project. At this point, I had worked for and with the Xen community for just over a year. We only just implemented community-led Governance and it was clear that at some point Xen would need to become [...]