From Dan Magenheimer at Oracle: Memory overcommit provides the ability for the sum of the physical memory allocated to all active domains to exceed the total physical memory on the…
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Xen.org Community: As part of the Xen 3.3 release, I have asked the various development authors to supply me with information on their new features. Over the next few weeks,…
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Xen.org Community: As many of you are aware, I have been working the past few months to update the current Xen.org website to better target various users of the site…
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I have just posted Ian Pratt's slides from LinuxWorld at http://www.xen.org/files/IanPrattlinuxworld-xen-Aug2008.pdf. Feel free to take a look...
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August 27 is POWER IT DOWN DAY - Turn off the power cord that powers up your printer, computer, monitor, etc. to join a global effort in reducing power consumption.…
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For those of you wanting to see the slides from Simon Crosby's LinuxWorld Keynote, here they are. Entitled "Data Center of the Future: How the Delivery of Technology Will Change",…
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(English) Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 is fast approaching and the Xen Summit Program Committee is ready to review and accept your topic proposal for the event. The Committee is actively…
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The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf. Dial-in information: 1.888.371.8921…
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Xen Community: As with all things in the community, I would like to give everyone a chance to comment on a new document. The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 requires…
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Pivot3 recently won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award For Best Virtualization Solution. A new case study on their solution built on open source Xen is now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Pivot3+Case+Study.pdf.
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Thanks for your responses on the Xen FIT Survey published recently. I am posting the results of the survey so everyone can see what the final opinions were. fit-survey-results.pdf
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Just ran across a nice posting on the Georgia Tech project on Matt Asay' "The Open Road" Blog. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10015925-16.html More info on this project on my previous blog posting at…
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The Clarkson University team is once again leading the efforts for a full day of Xen training at Lisa 2008; http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/.The full profile of the training is here: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/tutonefile.html#m1. Lisa…
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Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility. Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual…
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I have created a new page on the Xen Wiki where anyone wishing to post change requests to the Xen Documentation can do so: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. If anyone makes any of…
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I often receive emails asking about the documentation for Xen and wanting to see an upgrade, etc. The latest documentation that I am aware of is at this page: http://xen.org/xen/documentation.html…
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Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
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 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
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To Xen API folks: I see that Josh West has added some feature requests to the Wiki (see list below). Also, I have posted some API functions that appear to…
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Brandeis University has been leveraging Xen for the deployment of their PeopleSoft applications. Read about their solution in the newest Xen.org Case Study at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Xen+Brandeis+Case+Study.pdf.
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First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) December 10–11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 WIOV '08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems…
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I have posted a new project on the Xen.org Project page: XenAccess Library. Project Overview: When running multiple domains (or virtual machines) using the Xen hypervisor, this library will allow…
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A new Xen management project has just been posted on the Xen.org Projects Page. The source code will be available soon for anyone interested in working on this project. Screen…
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IBM just announced they are spending $400 million to create two new data centers for cloud computing research. From the article: "Using a slick combination of off-the-shelf, open-source virtualization technologies…
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Pivot3 today announced a new solution for serverless computing based on open source Xen. You can learn more about their solution at http://www.pivot3.com/products/serverless-computing. Ian Pratt was quoted in their release:…
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