Bruno Verachten - Vates Blog

Bruno Verachten

Community Manager & Technical Evangelist at Vates (XCP-ng, Xen Orchestra), because hypervisors deserve better word-of-mouth than "it's like VMware but free." Ex-Jenkins contributor, RISC-V obsessive, beekeeper, permie, father of two.

Xen Summit 2026 in Munich: the week RISC-V stopped being hypothetical

Xen Summit 2026 in Munich: the week RISC-V stopped being hypothetical

Fourteen of us went to Xen Summit 2026 in Munich and gave three talks. The standout: Xen on RISC-V, now running guests on real hardware with a working xl toolstack. Here's what we presented, what we heard, and why RISC-V needs a hypervisor now.