Konrad is an Senior Development Director at Oracle who has been working since 2009 on Xen. First as an maintainer of the Xen tree in the upstream kernel, and now as release manager for Xen 4.5.
If we used code-names, the Xen 4.5 release should be called Panda on Diet! We have 78K new code with 141K deleted. In effect this release has -63KLOC code than the previous one. The net effect of a skinnier Xen Project Hypervisor code base is increased usability, simplicity and
The Linux v3.14 will sport a new mode in which the Linux kernel can run thanks to Mukesh Rathor (Oracle). Called ‘ParaVirtualized Hardware,’ it allows the guest to utilize many hardware features – while at the same time having no emulated devices. It is the next step in PV evolution,
On March 18th, Linux 3.3 was released and it featured a number of interesting Xen related features. * Re-engineered how tools can perform hypercalls – by using a standard interface (/dev/xen/privcmd instead of using /proc/xen/privcmd) * Backends (netback, blkback) can now function in HVM mode. This means that
Linux 3.2 Linux 3.2 was released on Jan 4th and compared to earlier kernel releases, this one was very focused on fixing bugs reported by the community. Thank you!! Issues that caused lots of bug reports were: * The xen-platform-pci module (used for HVM guest to enable PV drivers)
About a year ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/272) my first patchset that laid the ground work to enable initial domain (dom0) was accepted in the Linux kernel. It was tiny: a total of around 50 new lines of code added. Great, except that it took me