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Bringing Xen on the Chromebook and the Arndale Board: the journey so far

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.

May 23, 2013 7:30am

Xen 4.3.0-RC2 Available and Xen TestDay Tomorrow

A new RC of the Xen Hypervisor has just been announced by our release manager with this message on the xen-devel mailing list.

May 21, 2013 7:09am

Transition from xen.org to xenproject.org

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?

The xen.org site, will be moved to www-archive.xenproject.org and all pages will clearly be marked as archived. We will redirect:

May 20, 2013 8:00am

Welcome Home: Xen moves to a new home built by CloudAccess.net

In April, Xen unveiled a new community site at xenproject.org.

May 16, 2013 2:00am

Xen Project Governance Changes for Review and Vote

As part of the move of Xen to the Linux Foundation, I have made a few proposals for Governance changes on the Xen Project mailing lists in the last few weeks. To avoid voting fatigue, several proposals are up for review or voting:

May 13, 2013 3:17am

Why Use Xen?

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?”

May 09, 2013 2:00am

Xen 4.3.0-RC1 is out!

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.

May 08, 2013 4:00am

Leveraging CentOS and Xen for the GoDaddy private cloud

Mike Dorman 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.

Apr 30, 2013 8:28am

Xen 4.1.5 & 4.2.2, Xen Document and Xen 4.3 Test Days

Xen 4.1.5 and 4.2.2 Releases

We are pleased to announce the release of the Xen 4.1.5 and 4.2.2 maintenance releases. These are immediately available from their respective Git repositories and from the Xen Project download pages

Apr 25, 2013 4:44am

Xen 4.3 update: Code Freeze started

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 exception. I’ve posted a more detailed description on the xen-devel mailing list.

As a reminder, we are planning on a 9-month release cycle. Based on that, below are
our estimated dates:

Apr 22, 2013 6:40am
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