Xen Summit 2026: Full Schedule

9:00am PDT

Xen 2026 Weather Report

Tuesday September 15, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

TODO

Speakers

Cody Zuschlag

Community Manager, Xen Project – Linux Foundation

With a passion for open source, Cody is a software engineer and open source advocate who enjoys connecting people with technology through talks, workshops, and collaboration. Since becoming an international speaker in 2022, he has presented on topics ranging from Node.js and web development... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Plenary

9:30am PDT

Renesas Keynote

Tuesday September 15, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

TODO

Speakers

Harunobu Kurokawa

Senior Manager, Renesas Electronics Corporation

He has been involved in automotive Linux development since 2013 and actively contributes to Linux Foundation projects, including Automotive Grade Linux (AGL). At Renesas, a semiconductor company, he leads embedded Linux development and promotes OSS adoption. Since joining the AGL... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Plenary

10:00am PDT

XCP-ng State of the Union

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Nearly three years after Broadcom's takeover of VMware, the community around Xen and XCP-ng looks different. This is the weather report for that community, not the product roadmap. We will walk the climate: the wave of VMware refugees arriving on the forum and in production, where they get stuck and what pulls them through; who is actually contributing to an open type-1 hypervisor, and why the...
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Speakers

Bruno Verachten 🍰

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

10:30am PDT

Morning Coffee Break

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Morning coffee and networking break.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

10:45am PDT

Enabling Mixed-Critical Automotive Workloads on R-Car Gen5 (X5H) with Xen

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

As automotive platforms shift to centralized compute, the key challenge is consolidating mixed-critical workloads while ensuring isolation, predictability, and visibility into cross-domain interference. This session presents a Xen-based implementation on Renesas R-Car Gen5 (X5H) using a Dom0-managed architecture to run Android IVI, Linux service/AI workloads, and real-time control with defined...
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Speakers

Harunobu Kurokawa

Senior Manager, Renesas Electronics Corporation

Jahan Murudi

Senior System Architect | Software-Defined Vehicles, Renesas Electronics

Building next-generation automotive platforms on R-Car Gen5 with expertise in Xen virtualization, embedded Linux, and software-defined vehicles. Enabling secure multi-domain architectures, AI/ML workloads, and NPU acceleration.
Driving innovation in LLM/VLM, performance optimization, and advanced IVI solutions... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

11:15am PDT

Initial Evaluation of Xen on the Renesas R-Car X5H Automotive SoC

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Hypervisors are used in automotive SoCs to consolidate multiple operating systems and provide system isolation. However, publicly available reports on Xen running on automotive Arm SoCs are still limited, especially regarding basic performance characteristics and evaluation setups. Therefore, sharing practical evaluation methods and measurement considerations based on real hardware is important...
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Speakers

Yuya Hamamachi

Software Enginner, Renesas Electronics

Yuya Hamamachi is software engineer for R-Car SoC device, has been working for OSS related task, such as R-Car Gen3 Starterkit support, R-Car S4 Whitebox SDK development, R-Car V4H Sparrow Hawk BSP development, and R-Car X5H .

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

11:45am PDT

Xen in cars: what's next?

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Renesas Electronics provides high-end System-on-Chips for cars, including cockpit systems and driver assistance systems. Xen is the reference solution used on our chips. Let's dive into the typical usecases that we intend to cover with Xen, what links we do with other community projects, and how we can push the stack forward in the safety-critical or real-time domains. This talk will also cover...
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Speakers

Frédéric Ameye

Head of Software Architecture, Renesas Electronics

Frederic has been working as SW developer for more than 15 years, in opensource communities and large industrial setups (defense, medical, heavy industry, automotive). Now he is leading the software strategy of Renesas Electronics for the automotive market.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

12:15pm PDT

Beyond the Reference Board - Porting AGL SoDeV's Xen Multi-Domain Architecture from V4H to RPi5

Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

AGL SoDeV's Xen multi-domain architecture -- Dom0less, DomD, and DomA -- was designed and validated on the Renesas R-Car V4H (Sparrow Hawk), the AGL reference platform. This talk shares our experience porting that architecture to the Raspberry Pi 5, a low-cost, widely available board, to make SDV prototyping accessible beyond specialized automotive silicon. We walk through the concrete challenges...
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Speakers

Yuichi Kusakabe

Chief Architect / OSPO Tech Lead, Honda

Yuichi Kusakabe is the Chief Architect at Honda Motor Co., Ltd. , AGL(Automotive Grade Linux) member and COVESA(Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance) member since 2011 with over twenty years of Automotive and Open Source Software Experience.
Prior to joining Honda Motor he worked f... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

12:45pm PDT

Lunch Break

Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Lunch and networking break.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

1:45pm PDT

XCP-ng+Xen status update

Tuesday September 15, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Status update of Xen-related work for XCP-ng.
Will introduce some parts of Xen-related roadmap for XCP-ng, status update on on-going projects, ...

Speakers

Teddy Astie

Vates, Vates

Xen hypervisor R&D engineer in the XCP-ng team. Working on AMD-SEV support and IOMMU paravirtualization. Also involved in Xen Rust integration.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

2:15pm PDT

XenServer Nested Virt progress update

Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

XenServer has been working on Nested Virtulaisation, along the lines of the plans laid out at XenSummit 2025, San Jose.

This is a progress report of how far we've got, the issues encountered, and what's next.

Speakers

Andrew Cooper

XenServer, XenServer

Andrew is a lead software engineer for XenServer. Upstream, he is an x86 hypervisor maintainer, and a member of the Xen security team.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

2:45pm PDT

How to effectively contribute to Xen

Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

TODO: Roger, as a maintainer, can explain how to contribute to Xen.

Speakers

Roger Pau Monne

Software Engineer, Citrix

Roger Pau Monné is a Xen and FreeBSD committer, that spends most of his time working on x86 related code on Xen.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

3:15pm PDT

x86: SVM AVIC

Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

SVM AVIC is feature missing in upstream Xen code base. This session covers the journey of enabling AVIC support on AMD x86 systems.

Speakers

Denis Mukhin

Software Engineer, Ford Motor Company

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmukhin/

Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

3:45pm PDT

Afternoon Coffee Break

Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Afternoon coffee and networking break.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

4:00pm PDT

Thermal Management in the Xen hypervisor for Automotive: Challenges and a Hybrid Approach

Tuesday September 15, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

The automotive industry is rapidly increasing its demand for hardware virtualization and is increasingly interested in the Xen Hypervisor as a key solution. This shift toward highly integrated systems introduces new challenges, particularly in thermal management, which are critical concerns for the automotive industry. Xen hypervisor currently lacks a standardized framework for system-level...
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Speakers

Kevin Hilman

CTO, BayLibre

Kevin is the co-founder and CTO of BayLibre, an embedded software consultancy focused on low-level systems software like Linux, Zephyr, and trusted firmware, as well as GCC and LLVM toolchains. Kevin's primary interest in Linux has been in the various subsystems related Power Management... Read More →

Takahiko Gomi

Principal Engineer, SoC Software Enablement for Automotive Systems, Renesas

Takahiko Gomi is a Principal Engineer working on SoC software enablement for automotive systems at Renesas. His work focuses on power and thermal management, system-level architecture, and virtualization technologies including Xen.
He is involved in defining software requirements... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

4:30pm PDT

Xen in Automotive: Challenges and Lessons Learned Toward Safety Certification

Tuesday September 15, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

As next-generation automotive systems increasingly demand hardware virtualization, several automotive companies are interested in Xen Hypervisor as a key solution. Understanding what the automotive industry truly needs from Xen is a critical topic for the Xen Community. In this session, we present nine categories of automotive requirements for Xen Hypervisor — Isolation, VM Lifecycle, Device...
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Speakers

Gaku Inami

Principal, Renesas Electronics

Gaku Inami is Principal for automotive SoC device, has designed and proposed system architecture with mainly using Open-Source Software since 2019, recently focusing on the system design of integrated ECU(SoC+MCU) for next generation.

Tu Thanh Nguyen

Renesas Design Vietnam, Senior Staff

Senior Staff Software Engineer working on the Xen Hypervisor project, participating activities related to Xen qualification and compliance with ASIL B functional safety requirements.

Tuesday September 15, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

5:00pm PDT

Securing Consolidated ICS Platforms with Xen - Meeting IEC 62443 Isolation Requirements

Tuesday September 15, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Industry 4.0 and OT/IT convergence are consolidating industrial systems onto single-SoC multicore platforms that combine real-time control, safety monitoring, HMI, and cloud connectivity. This cuts cost and complexity, but sharing hardware between trusted and untrusted software makes cybersecurity isolation the central challenge: a compromise of one component must not open a path into another. IEC...
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Speakers

Senthil Kumar Rajagopal

Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Manager, Advanced Micro Devices Inc

A highly enthusiastic functional safety expert with a total of 25 years of professional experience in designing software systems, functional safety, and ensuring cybersecurity compliance for embedded software products. Currently, I serve as a Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Manager... Read More →

Tuesday September 15, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

9:00am PDT

Robots Among Us: a Least-Privilege Xen Architecture for Safe Humanoid Robots

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Humanoid robots are poised to become one of the defining technologies of the next decade, with explosive growth projected across applications from hazardous industrial work to elderly care. They are also emerging as a promising new frontier for embedded virtualization. A single robot must fuse safety-critical motion control, real-time sensor processing, and rich AI workloads onto one heterogeneous...
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Speakers

Stefano Stabellini

Fellow, AMD

Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, at Aporeto, he created a virtualization-based security solution for containers and authored several security articles. As Senior Principal Software Engineer... Read More →

Jason Andryuk

AMD, AMD

Senior Member of Technical Staff at AMD working on Xen.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

9:30am PDT

Toward Reproducible OSS Reference Integration: Challenges in Automotive Xen-on-Arm BSP Integration

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Automotive SDV systems require multiple domains—IVI, instrument cluster, real-time, and service—to coexist on a single Arm SoC. Combining AGL, Zephyr, and Xen is a promising approach for OSS-based reference integration. The key challenge is turning this virtualized setup into a continuously buildable and reusable foundation. In this talk, Kurokawa presents ongoing integration work with AGL,...
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Speakers

Harunobu Kurokawa

Senior Manager, Renesas Electronics Corporation

Wednesday September 16, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

10:00am PDT

ARINC 653 on Xen: A Unikraft Safety Architecture

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

This talk presents a safety-critical architecture built entirely on the open-source Xen hypervisor, Linux and Unikraft unikernel(s) as self-contained per-partition runtimes. We cover how this environment is a basis for implementing the ARINC 653 avionics standard, static configuration, and how a control domain pattern provides system management without Dom0 privileges. We discuss real challenges...
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Speakers

Matthew Weber

Chief Software Architect, The Boeing Company

Matthew Weber is the Chief Software Architect for Boeing Linux, leading certified Linux and hypervisor architectures across Boeing business units. He chairs the ELISA Aerospace Working Group, and sits on the governing boards of both the ELISA Project and the Xen Project. Matt holds... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

10:30am PDT

Morning Coffee Break

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Morning coffee and networking break.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

10:45am PDT

Managing per-guest resources in Xen

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

The Xen hypervisor needs to manage several resources for each guest, each of those requiring the hypervisor to allocate memory for this task. In order to limit the amount of memory needed, most resources are limited, e.g. via guest configuration. There is an alternative approach: instead of limiting each resource individually, manage all resources via a common resource management, allowing more...
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Speakers

Juergen Gross

Wednesday September 16, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

11:15am PDT

Secure Inter-Domain Communication: Implementing VSOCK over Xen Argo

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Xen Argo provides a robust mechanism for inter-domain communication, offering strong isolation compared to traditional shared memory approaches. However, its message-based API creates a portability barrier for standard POSIX applications. In this session, I will present the realization of a new Linux kernel module that solves this challenge by implementing a complete VSOCK transport layer over Xen...
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Speakers

Matei Stănuca

Student at Computer Science, Politehnica University Bucharest

I am a student at Politehnica University Bucharest and I’ve been working for XEN for almost a year now. I am very passionate about kernel development and eager to understand everything about how computers work.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

11:45am PDT

Improving Xen Traceability: More Than Just Livepatching

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

The Xen livepatch framework provides a way to redirect calls to functions at runtime. It is useful when a running system needs to be updated without being stopped, for example to apply security fixes. This session explores the possibility of extending this mechanism into a more tracing/debugging-friendly feature. Such an extension could allow more flexible use of existing Xen tracing tools such...
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Speakers

Ryo Takakura

Kernel Engineer, VA Linux Systems Japan

Linux kernel enthusiast with a recent focus on Xen and a growing interest in hypervisor technologies.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

12:15pm PDT

Compiler assisted Xen code elimination

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Xen makes use of various techniques to conditionally remove code from the final binary. From Kconfig, to preprocessor tricks and DCE. This session explains a number of exotic key techniques used at AMD to drastically reduce code footprint with minimal changes to the source code. It highlights the set of constraints and requirements behind the new techniques and specific examples where they apply,...
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Speakers

Alejandro García Vallejo

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

12:45pm PDT

Lunch Break

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Lunch and networking break.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

1:45pm PDT

Xen Functional Safety Certification (an update)

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

As AMD advances efforts to safety-certify the upstream Xen hypervisor, this presentation provides an update on the past year's progress and roadmap. Xen, a type-1 hypervisor with a self-contained codebase, continues to gain traction in automotive and industrial applications due to its robust isolation, security, and virtualization capabilities. A central theme this year is reducing the...
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Speakers

Penny Zheng

Staff Software Engineer, AMD

Penny Zheng is s staff software engineer on AMD, focusing on virtualization on automotive scenario, especially for GPU virtualization.

Ayan Kumar Halder

Wednesday September 16, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

2:15pm PDT

Flight-Grade Xen: DO-178C Reverse Engineering for an example in list.h

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

What does the term “Low Level Requirement” (LLR) mean to Xen? This talk provides an update to the ongoing work of Xen’s Functional Safety Working Group in the form of a worked case study for a challenging example: list.h We will show 1) When we should use a technique called “requirements mapping” (to reuse requirements rather than invent them ourselves) 2) How to test the preprocessor...
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Speakers

Mark Brown

Parry Labs, Parry Labs

Mark Brown is the Director of Safety Critical Systems at Parry Labs. Parry Labs develops multiple types of soft-updatable modularity for vehicles and avionics, in order to promote a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). Mark has worked with a range of operating systems, type-1 hypervisors... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

2:45pm PDT

Safety Cases as Data: The SPDX Functional Safety Profile and Lessons from Zephyr

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Xen and Zephyr are walking parallel paths toward functional safety within the Linux Foundation, and both face the same problem: a safety case is a large, manually maintained argument that drifts the moment the design changes, and is hard to exchange between the projects, suppliers, and integrators who depend on it. This talk shares where Zephyr has gotten with a data-driven approach, and opens a...
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Speakers

Nicole Pappler

Senior Safety Expert, AlektoMetis.com

Nicole has worked in different projects developing safety relevant embedded software before starting as an independent assessor.
With now more than twenty years of experience in the industry, she supported several customers to show their compliance with safety, security and quality standards. Currently she is utilizing her experience regarding the development of highly reliable software to enable open source... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

3:15pm PDT

Formal Methods for Xen's Safety and Security

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

We will explore how different formal methods like model checking and theorem proving can be used to certify the correctness of Xen's working. We will also discuss the different benefits of a verified kernel, especially for embedded systems, and the various certifications.

Speakers

Thomas Courrege

Student Researcher

Student at EPITA, a French engineering school, specializing in security, networks, and industrial systems, with a particular interest in formal methods and kernel verification.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

3:45pm PDT

Afternoon Coffee Break

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Afternoon coffee and networking break.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 3:45pm - 4:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

4:00pm PDT

Display Para-Virtualization

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

In recent years, GPU para-virtualization on Xen has evolved to support increasingly complex automotive workloads. While prior work focused on graphics and compute virtualization, display para-virtualization introduces new challenges due to its interaction with hardware composition pipelines and real-time requirements. In this session, Ray presents his team’s latest work on display...
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Speakers

Ray Huang

Principal Software Engineer, AMD

Ray Huang (Huang Rui) is a kernel developer and leads AMD Linux platform solution team that works on AMD CPU, APU, and GPU enabling. He works on multiple components in the Linux kernel including GPU kernel DRM graphic and CPU power management support. Recently, he and his team focus... Read More →

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Embedded / Safety

4:30pm PDT

Preparing Xen on Arm for VHE-Always Hardware

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Future Arm CPUs are evolving toward systems where Virtualization Host Extensions (VHEs) are always enabled. This talk shows how Xen can adapt to the next generation of Arm hardware while continuing to support today’s programmable-VHE and non-VHE systems. We will walk through the engineering work required to make Xen bootable, and upstreamable on VHE-always platforms. The challenge goes far...
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Speakers

Luca Fancellu

Engineer, Arm

Luca Fancellu is a Staff software engineer in the Software group at Arm, working on the Xen Hypervisor from few years. Luca has experience in safety-critical and embedded software from the Automotive area, you will probably find most of the products he worked on running on wheels... Read More →

Michael Peter

Principal Engineer

Years of experience in virtualization and microkernel technologies.

Wednesday September 16, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Cloud / Infrastructure

5:00pm PDT

Xen on RISC-V: From Dom0less to xl

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

HEADS office - Gold Room

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...
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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

6:00pm PDT

Xen Project Social Dinner

Wednesday September 16, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm PDT

Social Dinner - TBD

Wednesday September 16, 2026 6:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Social Dinner - TBD

Social

9:00am PDT

Design Session 01

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

9:30am PDT

Design Session 02

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

10:00am PDT

Design Session 03

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

10:30am PDT

Morning Coffee Break

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Morning coffee and networking break.

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:30am - 10:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

10:45am PDT

Design Session 04

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

11:15am PDT

Design Session 05

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

11:45am PDT

Design Session 06

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

12:15pm PDT

Design Session 07

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:15pm - 12:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

12:45pm PDT

Lunch Break

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Lunch and networking break.

Thursday September 17, 2026 12:45pm - 1:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

1:45pm PDT

Design Session 08

Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

2:15pm PDT

Design Session 09

Thursday September 17, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

2:45pm PDT

Design Session 10

Thursday September 17, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 2:45pm - 3:15pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

3:15pm PDT

Afternoon Coffee Break

Thursday September 17, 2026 3:15pm - 3:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Afternoon coffee and networking break.

Thursday September 17, 2026 3:15pm - 3:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Break

3:30pm PDT

Design Session 11

Thursday September 17, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

4:00pm PDT

Design Session 12

Thursday September 17, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

4:30pm PDT

Design Session 13

Thursday September 17, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

Design Session

5:00pm PDT

Design Session 14

Thursday September 17, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

HEADS office - Gold Room

Thirty-minute design session slot. Topic and facilitator to be confirmed.

Thursday September 17, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
HEADS office - Gold Room Einsteinring 30, 85609 Aschheim, Germany

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