Xen Project (XAPI)

Just a quick reminder that the first Xen Test Day is today, August 14th. The focus of the test day is to test Xen 4.2 RC2, in your environment with a special focus on XL (given that XEND is formally deprecated with Xen 4.2). It is an on-line event held on the IRC freenode channel [...]

Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.0.4 and 4.1.3. These are available immediately from the download pages Xen Hypervisor 4.1.3: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.1.3) Xen Hypervisor 4.0.4: Download (archives), Source (tag ... [More] RELEASE-4.0.4) We recommend to all users of the Xen 4.1 and 4.0 stable series to update to these latest point [...] [Less]

After the success of Xen Document Days and with Xen 4.2 being close to release, we decided to trial Xen test Days. The first Xen Test Day will be on Tuesday, August 14th, on IRC freenode channel #xentest. The plan is to test Xen 4.2 RC2, whic h should be released shortly. You can find [...]

As promised, here is the poll for the security discussion. As a reminder, the purpose of this poll is mainly to see where people’s attitudes are with respect to the various options, so that we can move the discussion forward towards a conclusion. If you have any interested at all in the outcome, please make [...]

It is time again for the XenSummit North America, which will start in 3 weeks. This year, XenSummit is conveniently co-located with CloudOpen and LinuxCon. If you use open source Xen, Huawei UVP, Oracle VM, XenServer, XenClient or other Xen derived products and want to see where the Xen open source project is heading, you [...]

The Xen community achieved a major milestone last summer when all the necessary components for Xen dom0 support made it into the upstream kernel for the 3.0 release. However, during that process developers were focused on functionality, and not on ... [More] performance. As a result a handful of performance regressions were introduced in pv-ops kernels compared [...] [Less]

Last week we finally crossed the last major remaining issues off the Xen 4.2 TODO list. This means that the release plan now looks like this: 19 March — TODO list locked down 2 April — Feature Freeze 30 July — First release candidate WE ARE HERE Weekly — RCN+1 until release That’s right, we’ve [...]

A short write-up of how Xen's presence at OSCON went this year. My personal highlights were: Xen.org finally has a proper booth that we can re-use at events, we had a 3.5 hour Xen and XCP tutorial and we had community members involved in preparing and running our event presence.

We now have PCI passthrough support in QEMU upstream, this was one of the missing pieces needed to have a full featured QEMU device model. But there is still more work to do on it. Why do we use QEMU? We use QEMU in Xen to emulate a part of the hardware, in particular a [...]

All of this week Ian Jackson and myself have been have been attending DebConf12 in Managua, Nicaragua. This is the annual conference of the Debian Project, hosted this year by Universidad Centroamericana. There have already been several days of ... [More] talks, including the traditional “Bits from… ” talks from the release teams, project leader, DSA team [...] [Less]