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Xen getting multiprocessor support
News Xen is a 'hypervisor' -- a thin layer of software that governs how different operating systems get access to computer resources such as processors and memory. I've seen excellent results on eight-way systems -- that's the biggest we have access to...
[June 13, 2005, 18:10]
Xen update adds desktops graphics
News Programmers have released a new version of Xen with a graphics feature that makes the virtualization software more useful on desktop computers. Xen lets a single computer run multiple operating systems simultaneously, which is useful today as a way...
[December 29, 2006, 8:14]
Xen.org to build open-standards cloud platform
News The Xen.org community has announced plans to build a new cloud platform for service providers, as the basis of an initiative designed to help private and public cloud services co-operate using open standards.
[September 1, 2009, 13:27]
Xen masters Windows problems
News Start-up XenSource has succeeded in booting Microsoft Windows on top of Xen software, an important milestone in its effort to commercialise the virtual machine. Xen, which is designed to let multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is...
[August 24, 2005, 10:25]
Xen - The Art of Virtualization
White Papers This paper is a survey about the paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization, which was presented at the SOSP 2003. Xen is a virtual machine monitor that enables a machine to be partitioned into several virtual machines.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Xen: The start-up in Citrix clothing
News It's been a year since Citrix bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and integrated the business into its lineup of products delivering applications to desktops.
[October 29, 2008, 6:47]
Novell follows Red Hat with Xen announcement
News Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 will include the Xen virtualisation software, said Justin Steinman, who's in charge of data centre marketing for Novell. The move, while not a surprise, has particular importance for Novell since Xen...
[March 23, 2006, 8:00]
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot "xVM", short for "x86 Virtual Machine". Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Red Hat moves Xen closer to the mainstream
News The company already has promised to include a major virtualisation component, the Xen hypervisor software, in its next premium product, Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5, due by the end of the year. Among those milestones are test versions of...
[March 15, 2006, 8:10]
Xen and Server Consolidation
White Papers Xen an ideal solution for server consolidation based on para-virtualization is gaining currency. Enterprises are witnessing a server sprawl as low cost x86 boxes make their way into datacenters. Application provisioning on dedicated servers and...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Citrix: Cloud to carry Xen against VMware
News And then there are all the Linux distributions that include Xen, most of which are free, and no-one really has any idea of how many copies are in use. A year ago it bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source...
[October 27, 2008, 14:35]
Novell and Red Hat spat over Xen
News Novell's chief technology officer, Markus Rex, has hit back at criticism that the company included an unstable Xen virtualisation environment in its new Linux server, pointing to support from hardware partners.
[August 14, 2006, 9:25]
Red Hat Driving Virtualization Standards With Xen and Open Source Community
White Papers When Red Hat introduces a production-grade implementation of Xen virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 5 later this year, Linux users will gain access to a safe, efficient, and integrated virtualization capability that meets these needs.
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
Fedora Core 6 revamps Xen virtualisation
News Red Hat on Tuesday released Fedora Core 6, its newest hobbyist version of Linux, with an expandable installation routine and a third try at incorporating Xen virtualisation software. The biggest change coming with RHEL 5 is Xen, open source...
[October 24, 2006, 16:40]
Citrix goes virtual with Xen Desktop
Blog Citrix is hoping that its Xen Desktop product, which it launched on Monday, will do just that. Xen Desktop takes the model of this distributed endpoint and puts it right into the data centre," according to Calvin Hsu, senior product manager for...
[April 14, 2008, 16:53]
Novell takes Xen path to Linux success
News Novell tried to recover from earlier Linux fumbles by releasing major updates on Monday, adding Xen virtualisation software to its enterprise server product and glitzy graphics to the desktop counterpart.
[July 17, 2006, 17:25]
Toward Xen Virtualization on Every Server
White Papers This presentation explains why Xen is changing the industry - paravirtualization and why an open source industry standard hypervisor offers more value. The presentation explains what's inside Xen that makes it special and how is Xen going to market...
[November 4, 2006, 0:00]
Performance Isolation of a Misbehaving Virtual Machine With Xen, VMware and Solaris Containers
White Papers In recent years, there have been a number of papers comparing the performance of different virtualization environments for x86 such as Xen, VMware and UML. In this paper, the authors present the results of running a variety of different misbehaving...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Making Wide-Area, Multi-Site MPI Feasible Using Xen VM
White Papers The current work involves using Xen as the underlying virtual machine layer to implement such migration, along with performance-optimizing migration strategies - this particular paper deals with performance evaluations of MPI on Xen VMs including...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Red Hat rains on Xen parade
News A senior Red Hat executive on Monday maintained the open source Xen virtualisation environment was not yet ready for enterprise use, despite "unbelievable" customer demand and the fact rival Novell has already started shipping the software.
[July 31, 2006, 13:00]
