From Dave Scott:
I’ve refreshed the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) .isos on xen.org with a new development snapshot (labeled version 0.1.1). XCP is a collaborative effort to build a complete cloud infrastructure platform, complete with a powerful management stack, standards-based APIs, support for multi-tenancy and much more. See: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source.html
Since we released the first snapshot (0.1) we’ve had lots of contributions and valuable feedback. Particular thanks to
- Nicira for contributing the openvswitch (enabled by default,
- replaces linux bridging)
- Marathon for contributing patches for FT
- Ahmed Kamal for documenting how XCP consoles work[1]
- Colin Dean for creating a VNC console proxy and web front end[2]
- Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez for creating a standalone front-end[3]
In this update further highlights are:
- dom0 refreshed to CentOS 5.4
- xen refreshed to 3.4.2
- support for host SMBIOS data to be passed through to VMs
- improvements to experimental PCI passthrough
This update contains hundreds of changesets containing lots and lots of bugfixes and performance improvements, including:
- VM lifecycle queuing deadlock fixed
- rare post-fork() spinning xapi process fixed
- Active Directory authentication fixes
- PV drivers check for magic strings in xenstore removed
- lots of memory ballooning fixes
What’s next:
- more stabilising/ bugfixing
- more hg repositories (storage coming soon)
- prototypes of new features (e.g. stub domains, advanced vhd management)
- aim to release an alpha late Jan/ early Feb
Development continues on the mailing list: xen-api@lists.xensource.com. As always, comments / suggestions / patches welcome!
[1] http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2010/01/taming-xen-cloud-platform-consoles.html
[2] http://www.xvpsource.org/
[3] http://www.openxencenter.com/
