Name: Xen on RISC-V: From Dom0less to xl
Start: 2026-09-16T17:00:00-0700
End: 2026-09-16T17:30:00-0700

Wednesday September 16, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

The RISC-V port of the Xen hypervisor has been progressing over the past year. This session gives a practical status update on where the port stands today, covering the two main use cases: dom0less deployments for embedded and safety-critical workloads, and dom0 with the xl toolstack for more traditional virtualization scenarios.

We will walk through what works, what is still in progress, and what the remaining gaps are with a live demo to show the port running.

Speakers

Oleksii Kurochko

Software Engineer, Vates

Oleksii Kurochko is a Systems Engineer at Vates, the company behind XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra. He specializes in virtualization, systems programming, and open-source technologies, with experience spanning low-level software development, infrastructure, and reverse engineering. An active... Read More →

Baptiste Le Duc

Hypervisor and Kernel Engineer, Vates

Baptiste joined Vates as an intern of the Hypervisor & Kernel team, where he focused on enabling guest domain creation support via the xl toolstack from dom0 on RISC-V.

He is now a full-time engineer at Vates and continues to contribute to the Xen RISC-V port alongside Oleksii, working toward full dom0 and dom0less support upstream... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

Xen Summit 2026

Oleksii Kurochko

Baptiste Le Duc

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Xen Summit 2026

Oleksii Kurochko

Baptiste Le Duc

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