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The Paravirtualization Spectrum, part 1: The Ends of the Spectrum
10/23/2012

At XenSummit 2012 in San Diego, Mukesh Rathor from Oracle presented his work on a new virtualization mode, called “PVH”. Adding this mode, there are now a rather dizzying array of different terms thrown about — “HVM”, “PV”, “PVHVM”, “PVH” — what do they all mean? And why do we have so

Xen.org on Uservoice.com
10/15/2012

One of the issues in any software project can be the disconnect between what users want or would find useful, and the developers’ idea of what users want or would find useful, and Xen is no exception. To help address this issue, we are starting to experiment with a website

Xen ARM in Linux!
10/08/2012

Last weekend Linus Torvalds pulled the Xen on ARM patches in his Linux tree, so as of Saturday the 7th of October, we have Xen ARM in upstream Linux! This makes Xen the first hypervisor supported by Linux on the ARM platform! Working on ARM has been a very pleasant

Announcing XCP 1.6 Beta Release
10/01/2012

Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! The release is available from the download page: * XCP 1.6 Beta: Download (Xapi source) This release supersedes the XCP 1.5 beta release. A few months ago, the XCP team decided to concentrate their efforts on

XenSummit Videos: Xen & Apache CloudStack, Xen & OpenStack
09/29/2012
CES

This is another post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering Xen integrations with Apache Cloudstack and OpenStack: * Xen and CloudStack: Ewan Mellor describes the CloudStack project and explains why Xen is the pre-eminent hypervisor in public clouds today. He describes the

Tracing with Xentrace and Xenalyze
09/27/2012

Figuring out “what’s going on?” is always something very important. For example, knowing what processes were running on which processors can be very useful if you are doing OS development and/or performances evaluation. If applied to virtualization, that turns into figuring out what VMs were running on which

XenSummit Sessions: New PVH virtualisation mode for ARM Cortex A15/ARM Servers and x86
09/21/2012
CES

This is the second blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering seemingly unrelated topics – but you will realize they are not unrelated: * The new PV in an HVM container virtualization mode (or PVH) proposed and developed by Mukesh Rathor, Oracle:

Xen Document Day: Sept 24th, 2012
09/19/2012

We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! For a list of items that need work, check out the community maintained TODO

Xen 4.2.0 Released
09/17/2012
CES

Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. The release is available from the download page: * Xen Hypervisor 4.2.0: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.2.0) This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of

XenSummit Project Update Presentations and Videos
09/14/2012
CES

This will be the first blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week we will cover project roadmap and futures presentations. Note that you can download all presentations in a zip file. Sexy World of the Linux pvops project Also see: * Presentation Xen Cloud Platform

FreeBSD-XEN support: a quick status update
09/12/2012

Xen has always supported a wide variety of operating systems as guests while the host-side has always been less bright. Infact, at the moment, most of the host choice is basically around Linux or NetBSD. Seemingly, a renewed interest into improving the FreeBSD support for XEN may drastically change the

XenSummit Report and Personal Highlights
09/07/2012

Last week, has been a great week for our community. We had the Xen Developer Meeting, XenSummit and a presence at Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon and CloudOpen. It has been a very busy week, and I apologize for not reporting back to you earlier. We have uploaded most XenSummit presentations