I am pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.11. One of our long-term development goals since the introduction of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 has been to…
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Here is the August 2010 Project Golden Ratio data... GR_StatsAugust2010 Quick highlights for those of you not interested in all the details: 20,874 views of the Xen.org Blog 80.08% Answer…
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In the September 2010 LinuxPro Magazine there is a nice article on Remus and Xen 4. I recommend picking up a copy of this issue to learn more about Xen…
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Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine Robert Gallagher It is with great reluctance that I announce my departure from Xen.org as your community manager. Working with the…
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Xen Directions South America in Sao Paulo is underway with plenty of great speakers from Cloud Providers, Google, Citrix, and Ian Pratt giving his standard opening thoughts on the future…
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Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter.…
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The Inaugural Xen User Group Los Angeles from The Bitsource on Vimeo.
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From Andre Przywara: while experimenting with guest NUMA configurations I realized that Xen injects the host's core number into each guest. I believe this behavior is wrong, the number of…
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RELEASE-4.0.1 has been tagged in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Browsing the above URL will show the mercurial changelog contains many many bug fixes since 4.0.0. We recommend all users to upgrade. A source…
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The Xen.org community is actively looking for speakers at the Nov 3-4 Xen Summit Asia at Samsung in Seoul, Korea. Please submit topic abstracts at http://xensummit.org
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As I mentioned a few weeks back, Project ThreeEyes is the new effort to completely revamp the existing Xen.org website. I have opened the process up for web development companies…
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As part of the new Why Xen? document series, I am announcing the Why Xen? brochure for community use: here. Also available are the following: White Paper -Â http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhyXen.pdf Slides…
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From Ian Campbell: As previously discussed we would like to relicense libxc under the LGPL. http://xenproject.lfprojects.linuxfoundation.org/index.php/2010/07/26/xen-org-source-code-license-change-request/ http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01378.html We have now managed to track down all but one of the necessary…
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From Oracle comes an excellent site with good information on virtualization, Xen, and Oracle VM. The site is http://itnewscast.com/underground-oracle-vm-manual.
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Only 2 more weeks until Xen Directions South America at LinuxCon Brazil in Sao Paulo. Speakers include: * Ian Pratt * Marco Sinhoreli * George Dunlap * Liberie Cunha-Neto *…
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Xen Summit Asia 2010 in Seoul, Korea (Nov 2-3) is now accepting applications for topics/speakers at http://xensummit.org. This online tool allows speakers to enter topics/abstracts and submit papers if they…
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena…
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I am pleased to introduce the Program Committee for Xen Summit Asia at Samsung: Patrick Colp Ian Pratt Sang-bum Suh Pradeep Padala Chuck Yoo Todd Deshane Jun Nakajima Eddie Dong…
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Remus breaks the build - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00696.html Jeremy Fitzhardinge submitted a patch to fix a compile issue caused by Remus... "Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build…
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Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter.…
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From Ian Campbell - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset:Â Â 21732:eb34666befcc user:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> date:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fri Jul 02 17:46:01 2010 +0100 files:Â Â Â Â Â Â …
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From Stefano Stabellini - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is Anthony Perard. Developing this series we…
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From George Dunlap - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00673.html At the moment, the "weight" parameter for a VM is set on a per-VM basis. This means that when cpu time is scarce, two VMs…
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The sixth release candidate for 4.0.1 is tagged as 4.0.1-rc6 at http://xenbits.xen.org/staging/xen-4.0-testing.hg We expect this to be the final RC, with no changes except for regression fixes ahead of final…
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From Dave Scott - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-08/msg00031.html I've written a proposal on the wiki for "Cross-host VDI.copy" i.e. the ability to copy VDIs (disks) and therefore VMs between storage repositories on separate…
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