#FOSDEM 26: come to see our team on the XCP-ng/Xen Orchestra booth! Check our free shiny stickers 🥳

Xen Orchestra 6.1 is now available! Many improvements, both in terms of UI, REST API but also for our devops tools: Packer/Terraform providers, an official doc for Talos and much more. It's also the opportunity to announce our tech partnership with Pure Storage! xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

As we step into 2026, the whole Vates team thanks our customers, partners, and community for your trust and feedback. 2025 was a year of strong growth and major milestones. 2026 will be even more ambitious! Happy New Year! Let’s keep building, together. 🚀

XO 6.0 is now live 🎉 The first version has landed in the latest release channel and is now the default UI, bringing also native OpenMetrics support and many other improvements. And as a cherry on the cake, we’re also announcing QCOW2 reaching RC1 and a very early XCP-ng 9.0 demonstrator to test 🎅

Xen Orchestra 5.112 is out! 🎃 Mirror backup sync merge, new XO 6 views, big REST API milestone, Lenovo IPMI, NetBox 4.4 support… And more! Plus a recap of our recent announcements: @veeam.com beta for XCP-ng, signed Windows drivers & large disk support! xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

🚀 Big news for Windows users on XCP-ng! After years of work and collaboration with Microsoft, Vates is proud to announce that our Windows PV drivers are now officially digitally signed and ready for production use. xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/10...

🛰️ XO 5.111 is out! New features, improvements, announcements, from our first Vates Security Advisories to EasyVirt integration, Core UI updates, backup refinements, REST API progress, and more. Full release notes 👉 xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

2 weeks ago, ETH Zürich revealed VMScape, a new CPU side-channel attack. KVM and VMware are affected, Xen isn’t. Not because Xen is flawless, but because its microkernel-like design puts security first. virtualize.sh/blog/vmscape...

We reviewed the recent NPM supply chain attack: Xen Orchestra production users (XOA or from source) are not affected: only dev environments could be at risk if yarn.lock was ignored. More details at: docs.vates.tech/security/adv...

🛰️ XO 5.110 is here! 10–20x faster VMware migrations ⚡ VEEAM closed beta with native XCP-ng ✅ First redesigned backup UI in XO 6 🎨 …and plenty more improvements! xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

Great news for those relying on @veeam.com 🎉 If you’re part of the Veeam 100 Program, you can already test the brand-new XCP-ng plugin, bringing native compatibility between the Vates stack and Veeam products!

We’re now upstream maintainers of the Windows PV drivers 🥳 It’s the result of months of work to improve things where it really matters. Along the way, we found a vuln, one that led the biggest cloud provider to patch millions of VMs 🤯 That’s what involvement looks like! xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/07...

Xen Orchestra 5.108 just landed. So far, likely the biggest release of the year! Tons of new endpoints for the REST API, Qcow2 backup, Azure Storage, many new views in XO 6 & XO Lite and so on. DevOps side is also well packed with a CCM for XO among other things. xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

Just after XCP-ng 8.3 became LTS, we kicked off the journey to 9.0. Things are getting real: we're moving from early exploration to a first concrete target. XO 6.0 as the default UI + XCP-ng 9.0 pre-pre-pre-alpha in 2025? Maybe 👀 Stay tuned!

✅ XCP-ng 8.3 is now LTS! – Long Term Support status – XOSTOR now supported – Refreshed ISOs with latest updates & security fixes No new version to install if you're already on 8.3: just keep updating! xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/06...

Europe doesn’t need to build everything. But it does need to stop outsourcing its future. My thoughts after many many years in deep tech. virtualize.sh/blog/the-rig...

"They came up with a creative workaround: abusing our 30-day trial (initially 15 days until recently), over and over again. It all started back in April 2015 — yes, a full decade ago." What the actual f? (From @vates.bsky.social) virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...

Xen Orchestra 5.106 is out! Packed with features: ✅ MicroK8s-powered Pyrgos ✅ MS Teams notifications ✅ Audit log continuity ✅ REST API & UI upgrades ✅ Better VMware → Vates migration …and more! xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

We’re excited to partner with EasyVirt, to bring capacity planning, infrastructure insights, and sustainable IT to XCP-ng/XO users — including energy & CO₂ impact analysis across your entire stack! 🌱📊 vates.tech/blog/vates-e...

Can you scale a company to more than 100 people while staying fully self-hosted and using only open source tools? Check out our updated 2025 stack: what we use, what we replaced, and what’s next! vates.tech/blog/the-ope...

I thought it was time to share some perspective on what it takes to build a full virtualization stack. We’ve learned a lot over the years, often the hard way. Using a platform is one thing. Building and maintaining it is something else entirely. virtualize.sh/blog/few-bui...

Xen Orchestra 5.105 is now available 🔥 This latest monthly release might be one of our most feature-packed and diverse yet. From the evolving new UI (XO Lite & XO 6) to a brand-new PowerShell provider, we’ve made big strides across the board! xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

Take a guess on what it shows! (still early but "it's alive!"). Answer in ALT 😀

Monoculture in IT is a trap. It looks simple at first, but leads to lock-in, pricing shocks, and even geopolitical risks. From IE to VMware, we’ve seen it. Diversity isn’t harder—it’s smarter. I wrote about it here 👇 virtualize.sh/blog/please-...

Ça y est, je me suis enfin construit un homelab 🖥️ 🧪 digne de ce nom à l'aide d'un rack 10". Je vous raconte ça dans un billet de blog, avec de vrais morceaux de @vates.bsky.social dedans ! 😊 rodolphe.breard.tf/article/cons...

Want to contribute to open source without writing code? Join the community, help others, or translate! About translation, we now use Weblate (100% open source & self-hosted in a VM on XCP-ng) to translate XO Lite & XO 6. Jump in and contribute! translate.vates.tech/engage/xen-o...

While our DevOps team keeps adding integrations, the XO 6 / XO Lite frontend team is pushing the new UI forward. A host Dashboard view is landing this month — and it’s not the only new thing coming! 😉

The #XenOrchestra provider for #Pulumi is now live on the Pulumi Registry (alongside AWS, Azure, and others!). Describe and deploy your infrastructure on Xen Orchestra using Python, TypeScript, Go, C#, or even YAML! www.pulumi.com/registry/pac...

Xen Orchestra 5.104 is out! 🛰️ This release brings XO Lite improvements, REST API upgrades, XOA on AWS (beta), and new DevOps tools like the Pulumi provider & Go SDK. 🎉 👉 xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

LeMagIT vient de publier un article sur l'offre de virtualisation française @vates.bsky.social avec l'hyperviseur XCP-ng et la console d'administration Xen Orchestra. Pour ceux cherchant une alternative à VMware, c'est une solution technique de qualité. www.lemagit.fr/actualites/3...

I am happy to be part of this work :) This is the beginning of a new journey in Vates in the development of DevOps tools.

🐹The Vates DevOps Tools team is proud to announce the release of the first version of a @golang.org SDK that provides a client for using of the JSON-RPC XO API! 🎉 Contributions are open and welcome! github.com/vatesfr/xeno...

At Vates, we organized the latest Xen Winter Meetup in Grenoble, generously hosted by Grenoble University. This event marked a significant step in our commitment to the Xen Project. Check the details of this great event here: xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/02...

Xen Orchestra 5.103 is now available. That's our first release for 2025, and it's already packed with many exciting announcements. Take a look: xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

🔥Xen Winter Meetup 2025: SOLD OUT! We're thrilled to host this deeply technical event at Grenoble University, bringing Xen Project contributors from across the Atlantic & the Channel. Official schedule is now live: cfp.vates.tech/xen-meetup-2... We can't wait to see everyone next week!

XO 5.102 is here! 🛰️ Wrapping up 2024 with a bang: new features like sync merge, selective backup health check, scheduled RPUs, and more. Plus, a recap of an impressive year in features, code, and community growth. 👉 Don’t miss the announcement: xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

Xen Orchestra 5.101 just landed. And it's BIG 🛰️ Long term backup retention via GFS, vTPM restore, CloudBase Init among many other new stuff. Details in here: xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

Rustifying Xen! 🦀✨ Check out our latest blog post on how we're helping make Rust a first-class citizen for the Xen Project. From building a dedicated Rust working group to driving impactful initiatives, we're shaping the future of virtualization 🚀 xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/11...

🚀 Nearly 500,000 unique monthly visitors on our forums! Proof that open source, transparency, and community can thrive, even beyond traditional open-source circles! 🌍 (👋 hello & welcome to all ex-VMware users now running on our stack!)

🛰️ XO 5.100 is here! This release brings new features, enhanced REST API capabilities, and stability improvements. Our ecosystem is growing fast, and this update is just one of the ways we’re keeping pace. Check it out! 👇 xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

🚀 New services coming soon at Vates! We’re going beyond traditional support to help you build or migrate your IT infrastructure, meeting the needs of our growing customer base. Check out how we’re raising the bar on expertise and care. vates.tech/blog/expandi...

🚀 XCP-ng 8.3 is live! 🚀 Years of work have led to this moment: the final release of the 8.x series. Packed with new features and improvements, 8.3 sets the foundation for even more exciting things to come! Check out the full story: xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/10...

🚀 Xen Orchestra 5.99 is out! Packed with new features and improvements, just one month after the last release. We're scaling fast and delivering more, quicker than ever. Check it out! 💪 xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

🚀 XCP-ng 8.3 RC2 is out! 🚀 This is one of our most thoroughly tested releases, with thousands of tests and hundreds of CI runs. A huge thanks to everyone who contributed! 🙌 Join us in putting the finishing touches on XCP-ng 8.3! 💪 Read more and get involved here: xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/09...

Xen Orchestra 5.98 just landed! 🛰️ Read more about what's up at xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orc...

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