Today I’d like to talk about a functionality of Xen you may not have heard of, but might have actually used without even knowing it. If you use memory ballooning to resize your guests, you’ve likely used “populate-on-demand” at some point. As you may know, ballooning
As usual, the first weekend of February (1st & 2nd Feb this year) is FOSDEM weekend. Taking place at “ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth”, FOSDEM is the Open Source event of the year. At least for Europe: the website claims that FOSDEM hosts 5,000+ geeks and hackers
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,
As most FreeBSD users already know, FreeBSD 10 has just been released, and we expect this to be a very good release regarding Xen support. FreeBSD with Xen support includes many improvements, including several performance and stability enhancements that we expect will greatly please and interest users. With many bug
Originally posted on my blog, here. Xen has had a long history in libvirt. In fact, it was the first hypervisor supported by libvirt. I’ve witnessed an incredible evolution of libvirt over the years and now not only does it support managing many hypervisors such as Xen,
Release time is approaching, so Xen Project Test Days have arrived! On Monday, January 20, we are holding a Test Day for Xen 4.4. Release Candidate 2. Xen Project Test Day is your opportunity to work with code which is targeted for the next release, ensure that new features
Going to FOSDEM’14? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. There are 4 of them, and they will provide some details about new and interesting usecases for virtualization, like in
2013 has been a year of changes for the Xen Community. I wanted to share my five personal highlights of the year. But before I do this, I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to the Xen Project in 2013 and the years before. Open Source is about bringing together
In 2013, we held the first major Xen event aimed specifically at users: the Xen Project User Summit. In 2014, we want to do it again — but where and when? The Xen Project wants to hold its second Xen Project User Summit. We’d like to hold it somewhere
The Xen ARINC 653 scheduler is a real time scheduler that has been in Xen since 4.1.0. It is a cyclic executive scheduler with a specific usage in mind, so unless one has aviation experience they are unlikely to have ever encountered it. The scheduler was created
We’re very pleased to announce the release of Mirage OS 1.0. This is the first major release of Mirage OS and represents several years of development, testing and community building. You can get started by following the install instructions and creating your own webserver to host a static
ACPI vs. Device Tree on ARM Some of you may have seen the recent discussions on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list (and others) about the use of ACPI vs DT on the ARM platform. As always LWN have a pretty good summary (currently subscribers only, becomes freely available on 5 December)