Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen User Group LA Video – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/26/xen-user-group-la-event-video/ * Xen Summit Asia
The Inaugural Xen User Group Los Angeles from The Bitsource on Vimeo.
From Andre Przywara: while experimenting with guest NUMA configurations I realized that Xen injects the host’s core number into each guest. I believe this behavior is wrong, the number of cores should somehow be dependent from the number of VCPUs. Currently a CPUID decoding tool of mine gives me
RELEASE-4.0.1 has been tagged in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Browsing the above URL will show the mercurial changelog contains many many bug fixes since 4.0.0. We recommend all users to upgrade. A source tarball will soon be available from http://www.xen.org/
The Xen.org community is actively looking for speakers at the Nov 3-4 Xen Summit Asia at Samsung in Seoul, Korea. Please submit topic abstracts at http://xensummit.org
As I mentioned a few weeks back, Project ThreeEyes is the new effort to completely revamp the existing Xen.org website. I have opened the process up for web development companies to bid on and have received the first bid from Accelerator Enterprise Technologies. Here are the main highlights of
As part of the new Why Xen? document series, I am announcing the Why Xen? brochure for community use: here. Also available are the following: * White Paper -Â http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhyXen.pdf * Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/why-xen-slides As is standard, if you
From Ian Campbell: As previously discussed we would like to relicense libxc under the LGPL. https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/07/26/xen-org-source-code-license-change-request/ http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01378.html We have now managed to track down all but one of the necessary contributors in order
From Oracle comes an excellent site with good information on virtualization, Xen, and Oracle VM. The site is http://itnewscast.com/underground-oracle-vm-manual.
Only 2 more weeks until Xen Directions South America at LinuxCon Brazil in Sao Paulo. Speakers include: * Ian Pratt * Marco Sinhoreli * George Dunlap * Liberie Cunha-Neto * Rogerio Ferreira * Antonio Pina * Gunther Boeckmann * Thiago Cordeiro * Emanuel dos Reis Rodrigues * Boris Quiroz * Fabio King * Heitor Medrado de Faria * and me. I look forward
Xen Summit Asia 2010 in Seoul, Korea (Nov 2-3) is now accepting applications for topics/speakers at http://xensummit.org. This online tool allows speakers to enter topics/abstracts and submit papers if they so choose for review by the Program Committee. Please enter your ideas at this site so
Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena (Quake clone) under your Dom0 (and you could do theoretically that under DomU, but