To help the community get a better idea of the developer interactions, I am highlighting two xen-devel discussions a week on this blog. * PV console for HVM domains – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00283.html Owen Smith submits a patch that “creates a shared memory ring buffer
The team in Brazil has not just created a new LIVE DVD for Xen, they have also created a new XCP CD to handout to interested people. The new label for this CD is: I anticipate getting about 500 copies of this CD after Xen Directions South America later this
Marco Sinhoreli is speaking on August 10th at 2:20 pm on the Xen.org community, XCP initiative for Cloud Computing, and the Xen Hypervisor at the Cloud Computing Summit Brasil 2010. I will be posting the slides for his talk shortly. If you are attending the event, please be
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 * Oracle VM Demo – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/02/really-cool-animated-demo-of-oracle-vm/ * Why Xen? White Paper – https:
From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in after a fresh install. This is useful in case you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch,
Now that Xen Directions South America is planned and ready to go for later this month, I am starting efforts on the planning of Xen Summit Asia 2010 which is being sponsored by Samsung and Korea University. The event is set for November 2 – 3, 2010 at the Lotte
Check out this cool label for the soon to be released Xen Live DVD; thanks to Marco Sinhoreli – Thiago Martins and Linux Magazine folks for this great new label. Come to Xen Directions South America to get your Xen Live DVD or watch this blog for update on the posting
From Konrad Wilk on xen-devel: This patch set contains the groundwork and the driver itself for Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the Xen-SWIOTLB library (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/27/246) and I don't expect them to get in the
As far as I can see, the “xe” command in XCP and XenServer is missing the options to implement the underlying VM.get_tags, VM.set_tags, VM.add_tags and VM.remove_tags Xen API calls to manipulate tags associated with VMs. Am I missing something, or is there
I received an email from Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez who created OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager and is now working on OpenXenWebManager. Info to access the tool is: steps to test are: download from http://bit.ly/bres2U uncompress: tar xvfz xenwebmanager_rev24_full.tar.gz cd xenwebmanager python frontend.py and with
The final agenda for Xen Directions is available: English – Portuguese I will post the Speaker Profile document later today at http://www.xen.org/community/xenevents.html Thanks to Marco Sinhoreli and Boris Quiroz for their great efforts in putting together this event.
From Ian Campbell – 8 Request for Comment Patches at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00099.html This series is an RFC (I couldn’t convince “hg email” to mark mails other than the first as such). The series introduces auto-generation of the type definitions used in the