Xen makes gains in cloud computing, but one industry player cautions customers be wary of those who claim their Xen outperforms others.

Xen is one example of such para-virtualization architecture. The privileged instructions are implemented by hypercalls to the hypervisor.

We discussed the role of open source software in virtualization, how virtualization contributes to cloud computing and the role of an unlikely partner — Microsoft — in the development of the open ...

Pratt, believes that the Xen Cloud Platform could be the future of Xen, enabling developers to take full advantage of the Xen architecture. He also notes that having hypervisors on client devices ...

Xen 4.0, introduced April 13, offers a host of new features designed to address demands coming from enterprises and the growth of cloud computing, according to Ian Pratt, founder and chairman of ...

The group is claiming that Xen 4.0 will offer substantial improvements for both on-premise and cloud computing workloads.

Want a new and improved hypervisor for your cloud or data-center? Then consider the latest edition of Xen, Xen 4.5, from the Linux Foundation 's Xen Project Collaborative Project.

Two major vendors are using KVM virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service.

Last week the Xen Project, The Linux Foundation-hosted open source hypervisor, released Xen Project Hypervisor 4.12, which features security and code size improvements, plus x86 architectural renewal.

For seven years, Xen virtualization software used by Amazon Web Services and other cloud computing providers has contained a vulnerability that allowed attackers to break out of their confined ...