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?”

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.

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:

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 a truly vendor neutral project.