t’s a fast-moving world. I turn my back for a moment to log onto my XenDesktop, and before you know it, the Planet turns to KVM for Cloud Virtualization. Suddenly all those Xen, VMware and Hyper-V users must have switched to KVM overnight! Impressive. I quickly check the XenServer
Version 1.2 of the XCP migration utility is now available at: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_projects.html Release highlight is the ability to migrate PV VMs that load kernel/ramdisk from the Dom0(without pygrub). In order for the script to automatically SFTP the kernel/ramdisk to
Release Candidate 3.4.3-rc5 is now tagged at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen.3.4-testing.hg. This is the final RC before 3.4.3 release. Please test.
The xen-tools project is currently back in active development with the latest scripts available at http://gitorious.org/xen-tools. Xen-tools is a collection of simple perl scripts which allow you to easily create new guest Xen domains on the command line. This is the primary site for now and a
Over the past year or so I have been doing a weekly categorization of the following Xen.org mailing lists: * xen-devel * xen-users * xen-api Each mailing list is updated on a weekly basis in a variety of categories to assist you in looking for answers to questions that you have and
There are only 9 days left until the premier must-attend event of 2010: Xen Summit North America at AMD. Join the Xen.org community for 2 days of in-depth virtualization discussion on a variety of technologies. Highlights include: * Cloud Computing Talks from Bernard Golden (CEO HyperStratus) , Paul Lappas (VP
Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with
My apologies, but it appears the mailing lists are having issues. I have asked IT to take a look at the issue and get them up and running again.
Here is the complete Xen 4.0 feature list: * Better performance and scalability: 128 vcpus per guest, 1 TB of RAM per host, 128 physical CPUs per host (as a default, can be compile-time increased to lots more). * blktap2 for VHD image support, including high-performance snapshots and cloning. Wiki link:
CAMBRIDGE, UK » 4/13/2010 » Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen® hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.0, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective effort of a global development team representing more than 50 leading technology
Xen Community: Welcome to the final voting in the Xen.org Mascot Contest. The three final ideas: Bonsai Tree, Panda, and Zen Penguin have all been converted to some concept images to better help you visualize the concepts. Once a winner is chosen, the community can provide input to the
The final (or just about final) agenda for Xen Summit North America at AMD is now available. The agenda has 26 presentations over 2 days (April 28-29) and provides attendees with a variety of topics of interest to the Xen.org community. Speaker profiles and topic abstracts are also now