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2026 27

  1. Reading temperature of Intel CPUs by (carefully) making a hole in the Matrix
  2. XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra on RISC-V: a progress report from the emulator
  3. October 2026 Security Updates #3 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  4. October 2026 Security Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  5. October 2026 Updates #1 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  6. Xen on RISC-V boots on the Spacemit K3: our first RVA23 board!
  7. September 2026 Security Updates #1 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  8. Xen on RISC-V just ran on real hardware!
  9. August 2026 Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  10. August 2026 Updates #1 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  11. XCP-ng 8.3 LTS: Refreshed Installation ISOs
  12. July 2026 Updates #1 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  13. Behind the scenes: debugging a pool join failure
  14. June 2026 Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  15. June 2026 Updates #1 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS
  16. Xen on RISC-V: Dom0 Boot, Hypercalls and Docker Toolchain 5 months ago • 5 min read
  17. May 2026 Updates #3 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 5 months ago • 2 min read
  18. May 2026 Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 6 months ago • 1 min read
  19. QCOW2 is now GA in XCP-ng 6 months ago • 4 min read
  20. May 2026 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 6 months ago • 2 min read
  21. Xen Spring Meetup 2026: a look back at the community in motion 6 months ago • 3 min read
  22. April 2026 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 6 months ago • 4 min read
  23. March 2026 Security Updates #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 7 months ago • 1 min read
  24. March 2026 Security Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 7 months ago • 1 min read
  25. March 2026 Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 8 months ago • 4 min read
  26. FOSDEM 2026: Thank you for ten years of conversations 8 months ago • 5 min read
  27. January 2026 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 9 months ago • 2 min read

2025 32

  1. December 2025 Security and Maintenance Updates for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS 10 months ago • 5 min read
  2. Xen 4.21 is out a year ago • 2 min read
  3. XCP-ng on Arm with Ampere a year ago • 6 min read
  4. XCP-ng 8.3 Varstored Update: Unbootable VM Risk and Remediation a year ago • 8 min read
  5. October 2025 Security and Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS a year ago • 7 min read
  6. QCOW2 beta announcement a year ago • 4 min read
  7. Xen Summit 2025: how we shaped what's next a year ago • 5 min read
  8. Signed Windows PV drivers now available a year ago • 5 min read
  9. XCP-ng 8.2 LTS reached its End Of Life a year ago • 1 min read
  10. September 2025 Security Update for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS a year ago • 1 min read
  11. September 2025 Security Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS a year ago • 2 min read
  12. September 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 a year ago • 3 min read
  13. Xen Summit 2025, Talks & Pizza a year ago • 3 min read
  14. Windows PV drivers: update and roadmap a year ago • 6 min read
  15. July 2025, Security Update #2 for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS a year ago • 1 min read
  16. Your own GPU-Powered LLMs with XCP-ng a year ago • 8 min read
  17. July 2025 Security Update #2 for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS a year ago • 2 min read
  18. July 2025 Security and Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 LTS a year ago • 2 min read
  19. July 2025 Security and Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS a year ago • 1 min read
  20. QCOW2 in XCP-ng: engineering a new storage path a year ago • 6 min read
  21. XCP-ng 8.3 is now LTS a year ago • 5 min read
  22. XSA-468: multiple Windows PV driver vulnerabilities - update now! a year ago • 4 min read
  23. May 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 a year ago • 5 min read
  24. May 2025 Security Update for XCP-ng 8.2 & 8.3 a year ago • 2 min read
  25. Xen on Ampere: A New Era for ARM in the Data Center 2 years ago • 5 min read
  26. The future of XCP-ng LTS 2 years ago • 3 min read
  27. Xen 4.20 is out 2 years ago • 2 min read
  28. March 2025 Security and Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS 2 years ago • 3 min read
  29. March 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 2 years ago • 4 min read
  30. Xen Winter Meetup 2025: a recap 2 years ago • 9 min read
  31. January 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS 2 years ago • 3 min read
  32. January 2025 Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.3 2 years ago • 3 min read

2024 27

  1. Making Rust a first-class citizen for Xen 2 years ago • 7 min read
  2. November 2024 Security Update for XCP-ng 8.3 2 years ago • 2 min read
  3. November 2024 Security and Maintenance Update for XCP-ng 8.2 LTS 2 years ago • 4 min read
  4. Leading online travel platform builds massive, scalable internal cloud with Vates VMS 2 years ago • 5 min read
  5. XCP-ng 8.3 2 years ago • 13 min read
  6. New certified Protectli devices 2 years ago • 4 min read
  7. September 2024 Security Updates 2 years ago • 2 min read
  8. Advancing Xen on RISC-V: key updates 2 years ago • 5 min read
  9. XCP-ng 8.3 Release Candidate 2 2 years ago • 5 min read
  10. Xen 4.19 is released 2 years ago • 4 min read
  11. XCP-ng High Availability: a guide 2 years ago • 7 min read
  12. August 2024 Security Updates 2 years ago • 1 min read
  13. Hosting the future of Xen 2 years ago • 6 min read
  14. July 2024 Security Updates 2 years ago • 1 min read
  15. XCP-ng 8.3 Release Candidate 1 2 years ago • 8 min read
  16. June 2024 Security and Maintenance Update 2 years ago • 4 min read
  17. First SMAPIv3 driver is available in preview 3 years ago • 7 min read
  18. IOMMU paravirtualization for Xen 3 years ago • 6 min read
  19. April 2024 Security Update 3 years ago • 2 min read
  20. Integrating Xen on the Ampere Platform: a first look 3 years ago • 10 min read
  21. March 2024 Maintenance Update 3 years ago • 2 min read
  22. March 2024 Security Update 3 years ago • 2 min read
  23. Using Packer with XCP-ng 3 years ago • 7 min read
  24. XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 2 3 years ago • 6 min read
  25. February 2024 Security Update 3 years ago • 1 min read
  26. Rust guest tools 0.4.0 3 years ago • 2 min read
  27. January 2024 Security Update 3 years ago • 1 min read

2023 32

  1. Rust guest tools 0.3.0 3 years ago • 2 min read
  2. Updated installer for XCP-ng 8.2.1 3 years ago • 3 min read
  3. December 2023 Security Update 3 years ago • 2 min read
  4. Xen 4.18 release 3 years ago • 3 min read
  5. November 2023 Security Update 3 years ago • 3 min read
  6. October 2023 Security Update #2 3 years ago • 1 min read
  7. CHSCC's Strategic Move: Why They Chose Vates VMS Over VMware 3 years ago • 4 min read
  8. October 2023 Security Update 3 years ago • 3 min read
  9. Updates on the Rust guest tools 3 years ago • 4 min read
  10. September 2023 Security Update 3 years ago • 1 min read
  11. A new community manager for the Xen Project 3 years ago • 1 min read
  12. August 2023 Security Update 3 years ago • 3 min read
  13. Erratum: July 2023 Security Update - Zenbleed 3 years ago • 1 min read
  14. July 2023 Security Update - Zenbleed 3 years ago • 2 min read
  15. XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 1 3 years ago • 6 min read
  16. Upgrading From Debian 11 To Debian 12 3 years ago • 1 min read
  17. Solving live migration crashes in RHEL 8.8 and derivatives 3 years ago • 3 min read
  18. May 2023 Maintenance Update 3 years ago • 3 min read
  19. New Xen updates on RISC-V 3 years ago • 5 min read
  20. Leading the Pack: MANI Indústrias Plásticas SA' Journey with Vates Virtualization Management Stack 3 years ago • 8 min read
  21. XCP-ng on ODROID-H boards 3 years ago • 4 min read
  22. Empowering Nor-Cal Controls: A Success Story in the Power Generation Sector 4 years ago • 8 min read
  23. New Guest Tools in Rust 4 years ago • 4 min read
  24. March 2023 Security Update 4 years ago • 2 min read
  25. Bringing Rust to the Xen Project 4 years ago • 5 min read
  26. Using SPDK with Xen 4 years ago • 6 min read
  27. News about 8.3 Alpha 4 years ago • 8 min read
  28. February 2023 Security Update 4 years ago • 1 min read
  29. XCP-ng and LINBIT alliance #3 4 years ago • 5 min read
  30. Current Xen RISC-V support status 4 years ago • 5 min read
  31. January 2023 Security Update 4 years ago • 1 min read
  32. Project & Release Tracking for Xen - Part 2 4 years ago • 5 min read

2022 33

  1. December 2022 Security Update 4 years ago • 3 min read
  2. Xen 4.17 is released 4 years ago • 3 min read
  3. XCP-ng 8.3 Alpha 4 years ago • 10 min read
  4. November 2022 Security update 4 years ago • 3 min read
  5. Migrate from VMware to XCP-ng 4 years ago • 10 min read
  6. October 2022 Security Update 4 years ago • 2 min read
  7. October 2022 Maintenance Update 4 years ago • 3 min read
  8. Xen Summit 2022: a recap 4 years ago • 7 min read
  9. ZFS-ng: an intro on SMAPIv3 4 years ago • 9 min read
  10. Project & Release Tracking for Xen - Part 1 4 years ago • 3 min read
  11. Network bonds in XCP-ng 4 years ago • 9 min read
  12. Why Xen wasn't hit by RETBleed on Intel CPUs 4 years ago • 4 min read
  13. Grant Table in Xen 4 years ago • 7 min read
  14. VM replication in XCP-ng 4 years ago • 3 min read
  15. RETBleed security patch 4 years ago • 1 min read
  16. June 2022 Security Update #2 4 years ago • 1 min read
  17. June 2022 Security and Bugfix Update #1 4 years ago • 2 min read
  18. How to use load balancing in XCP-ng 4 years ago • 4 min read
  19. Understanding the storage stack in XCP-ng 4 years ago • 11 min read
  20. Fetching metrics in Xen: why the method matters 4 years ago • 4 min read
  21. May 2022 Security Update 4 years ago • 1 min read
  22. My vision for Open Source pro support 4 years ago • 9 min read
  23. How to create a local ISO repository in XCP-ng 4 years ago • 3 min read
  24. How Bedrock Streaming migrated from VMware to XCP-ng 5 years ago • 4 min read
  25. April 2022 Security Update 5 years ago • 1 min read
  26. March 2022 Security Update 5 years ago • 1 min read
  27. XCP-ng 8.2.1 update for 8.2 LTS 5 years ago • 2 min read
  28. XCP-ng 8.2.1 is here... But it needs you first 5 years ago • 1 min read
  29. February 2022 Security Update 5 years ago • 1 min read
  30. Who are you? 5 years ago • 2 min read
  31. Removing support for 32-bit PV guests 5 years ago • 3 min read
  32. January 2022 Security Update 5 years ago • 1 min read
  33. User Story #4 - How Imply I.T. migrate from VMware to XCP-ng 5 years ago • 3 min read

2021 23

  1. DPUs for storage: a first look 5 years ago • 5 min read
  2. December 2021 XCP-ng Updates 5 years ago • 4 min read
  3. RunX is available in tech preview 5 years ago • 1 min read
  4. User story #3 - City of Challans and public infrastructure 5 years ago • 3 min read
  5. RunX: next generation secured containers 5 years ago • 5 min read
  6. September 2021 Security update 5 years ago • 1 min read
  7. DPUs and the future of virtualization 5 years ago • 5 min read
  8. Summer 2021 Security and Bugfix Updates 5 years ago • 2 min read
  9. June 2021 Security Updates 5 years ago • 1 min read
  10. FreeBSD network perfs vs XSA-332 5 years ago • 4 min read
  11. Xen developers & design summit 5 years ago • 1 min read
  12. XCP-ng available in IKOULA datacenter 6 years ago • 1 min read
  13. XCP-ng preinstalled on Protectli hardware 6 years ago • 2 min read
  14. April 2021 1st Security And Bugfix Update 6 years ago • 1 min read
  15. Xen and the RISC-V Hypervisor Extension 6 years ago • 3 min read
  16. February 2021 Security and Bugfix Updates 6 years ago • 1 min read
  17. User stories #2 - Aqua Ray, Tier IV and XCP-ng 6 years ago • 4 min read
  18. Edge Case #3 - Xen and Raspberry Pi 6 years ago • 4 min read
  19. XCP-ng DevBlog - IPv6 support 6 years ago • 4 min read
  20. FOSDEM 2021 6 years ago • 1 min read
  21. Guest UEFI Secure Boot 6 years ago • 3 min read
  22. Security issue in sudo 6 years ago • 1 min read
  23. January 2021 Security Update 6 years ago • 1 min read

2020 36

  1. XCP-ng in 2020 6 years ago • 1 min read
  2. Testing XCP-ng on HPE ProLiant 6 years ago • 19 min read
  3. December 2020 Security Updates 6 years ago • 2 min read
  4. Thoughts about CentOS & XCP-ng future 6 years ago • 2 min read
  5. XCP-ng and Aqua Ray partnership 6 years ago • 2 min read
  6. Security and bugfix update (PCI passthrough, UEFI) 6 years ago • 1 min read
  7. XCP-ng 8.2 - LTS 6 years ago • 4 min read
  8. XCP-ng and IKOULA partnership 6 years ago • 2 min read
  9. Security update for "PLATYPUS" side-channel attack 6 years ago • 1 min read
  10. XCP-ng and LINBIT alliance #2 6 years ago • 4 min read
  11. November 2020 Security Updates 6 years ago • 2 min read
  12. XCP-ng 8.2 - Release Candidate 6 years ago • 2 min read
  13. XCP-ng 8.2 LTS - beta 6 years ago • 4 min read
  14. September 2020 Security Updates 6 years ago • 1 min read
  15. Edge Case #2 - Protectli hardware 6 years ago • 4 min read
  16. Edge Case #1 - HPE Edgeline server 6 years ago • 7 min read
  17. August 2020 XCP-ng Security Updates 6 years ago • 1 min read
  18. User stories #1 : XCP-ng at Vates 6 years ago • 7 min read
  19. XCP-ng and VyOS partnership 6 years ago • 1 min read
  20. Edge Case #0 - Intro on Edge computing 6 years ago • 3 min read
  21. Online Xen Summit 2020 6 years ago • 6 min read
  22. July 2020 XCP-ng Security Updates 6 years ago • 1 min read
  23. Intel microcode security update (CROSSTalk) 6 years ago • 2 min read
  24. Xen Project Developer & Design Summit 6 years ago • 1 min read
  25. Pass the Salt 2020 - Virtual conference 6 years ago • 1 min read
  26. Device Emulation in the Xen Hypervisor for HVM Guests 6 years ago • 4 min read
  27. XCP-ng and Vinchin partnership 6 years ago • 1 min read
  28. 100,000 unique downloads for XCP-ng 7 years ago • 4 min read
  29. April 2020 XCP-ng Security Updates 7 years ago • 2 min read
  30. XCP-ng 8.1 is available 7 years ago • 4 min read
  31. XCP-ng 8.1 - Release Candidate 7 years ago • 1 min read
  32. XCP-ng and Storware alliance 7 years ago • 1 min read
  33. XCP-ng is now a Xen Project incubated solution 7 years ago • 3 min read
  34. XCP-ng 8.1 - Beta 7 years ago • 60 min read
  35. XCP-ng and LINBIT alliance 7 years ago • 2 min read
  36. Meet us at FOSDEM 2020 7 years ago • 1 min read

2019 23

  1. XCP-ng in 2019 7 years ago • 1 min read
  2. Xen and Intel microcode security updates 7 years ago • 2 min read
  3. Innovation in XCP-ng: I-Nov 7 years ago • 2 min read
  4. Open Source Summit - Paris 7 years ago • 1 min read
  5. Security updates for Intel Hardware 7 years ago • 2 min read
  6. November 2019 Security, bugfix and enhancement updates 7 years ago • 3 min read
  7. XCP-ng DevBlog - SMAPIv3 7 years ago • 3 min read
  8. Software updates for XCP-ng 7.6 and 8.0 7 years ago • 3 min read
  9. How to install pfSense in a VM 7 years ago • 2 min read
  10. XCP-ng 8.0 7 years ago • 4 min read
  11. XCP-ng Security Bulletin: kernel update (SACK vulnerability) 7 years ago • 2 min read
  12. XCP-ng 7.6 gets an update 7 years ago • 2 min read
  13. XCP-ng 8.0 - Release Candidate 7 years ago • 4 min read
  14. Xen Project - Developer and design Summit 7 years ago • 1 min read
  15. XCP-ng 8 - Beta release 7 years ago • 2 min read
  16. XCP-ng Security Bulletin: MDS hardware vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs 7 years ago • 4 min read
  17. Meet us at Viva Technology 2019 7 years ago • 1 min read
  18. HPE Start-ups program 8 years ago • 1 min read
  19. XCP-ng Security Bulletin: multiple vulnerabilities related to PV guests 8 years ago • 3 min read
  20. Webinar: Build a full Open Source VDI stack 8 years ago • 1 min read
  21. XCP-ng at the Croatian Linux Users’ Conference 8 years ago • 1 min read
  22. Ext4 support in XCP-ng 8 years ago • 2 min read
  23. Grab all the XCP-ng swag 8 years ago • 2 min read

2018 26

  1. Zstandard compression for XCP-ng 8 years ago • 60 min read
  2. XCP-ng R&D initiative 8 years ago • 3 min read
  3. Celebrating 1 year of XCP-ng 8 years ago • 1 min read
  4. XCP-ng Security Bulletin: multiple vulnerabilities 8 years ago • 3 min read
  5. XCP-ng 7.6 upgrade 8 years ago • 2 min read
  6. XCP-ng 7.6 8 years ago • 2 min read
  7. XCP-ng Security Bulletin: XSA-278 8 years ago • 1 min read
  8. Happy 15th birthday, Xen! 8 years ago • 1 min read
  9. XCP-ng new install features 8 years ago • 2 min read
  10. UDS Enterprise - A Virtual Desktop solution compatible with XCP-ng 8 years ago • 2 min read
  11. XCP-ng Security Bulletin 8 years ago • 2 min read
  12. XCP-ng 7.5 upgrade 8 years ago • 1 min read
  13. XCP-ng 7.5 8 years ago • 4 min read
  14. XCP-ng on Hetzner dedicated hosts 8 years ago • 3 min read
  15. XCP-ng with ZFS 8 years ago • 8 min read
  16. Release Candidate for XCP-ng 7.5 8 years ago • 3 min read
  17. Migrate from XenServer to XCP-ng 8 years ago • 4 min read
  18. XCP-ng 7.4.1 8 years ago • 2 min read
  19. The future of VM tools 9 years ago • 3 min read
  20. Next release target: 7.4.1 9 years ago • 1 min read
  21. A new home for XCP-ng community 9 years ago • 1 min read
  22. First XCP-ng release 9 years ago • 4 min read
  23. XCP-ng successful Kickstarter campaign 9 years ago • 2 min read
  24. XCP-ng is now funded at 437% 9 years ago • 1 min read
  25. XCP-ng is on Kickstarter! 9 years ago • 1 min read
  26. XCP-ng on tracks 9 years ago • 4 min read