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
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
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
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:
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.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
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
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
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
Just a quick update on the Xen 4.2 release. 4.2.0-rc3 was released on 23 August and we intend to release rc4 around the end of the week. Barring any last minute critical bug reports our intention is that rc4 will be the final release candidate. * 19 March
I’d like talk about the xen-tools package, which is found in Debian-derived distros. It’s a straightforward Xen VM provisioning tool with an unusual but attractive approach. I use it in the Xen.org automated testing system, for installing Debian-derived test VMs. And I run it by hand from
As you all know, the Xen Developer Meeting, XenSummit, Linux Plumbers, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are all happening this week. We will be publishing slides and videos in the coming days: our developers and I are extremely busy at the moment. I will be uploading slides to slideshare and videos to