Dear community members. You may have noticed that it has been a little quieter than usually on the blog. One of the reasons is that I have been very busy preparing a number of events. I thought, I’d give you a quick update. OSCON, July 25-29 Xen.org will
This is a guest blog post by Sagar Kadam, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Sagar’s GSoC project is called Porting Unix libc to Xen PV. Please welcome Sagar into the community. Hello all; I am Sagar Kadam from NYU Poly where I am pursuing my MS
This is a guest blog post by George Boutsioukis, one of our Google Summer of Code students. My name is George Boutsioukis and I’m a CS undergraduate at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. This is my second year in GSoC, after taking up a project last year for
You may remember the Community vote on the Xen Governance Proposal: well the deadline for the vote passed a few minutes ago and I closed the vote. There was almost unanimous for the proposal: * 92% in favor * 8% abstained I also got some constructive and encouraging feedback such as: * I
This is a very short blog post as both Wim Coekaert and Ewan Mellor beat me by some time in publishing this great news: I was too busy traveling and celebrating. The fantastic news is that Linux 3.0 will have everything necessary to run Xen as both as a
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Kiper, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Daniel’s GSoC project is called Recovery of crashed Linux. Please welcome Daniel into the community. My name is Daniel Kiper. I was born and live in Poland. I am a PhD student
This is a guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Please welcome Wei into the community. Hi, all. I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Our university is said to be one of the most beautiful universities
Last week I was at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest. The best news is: the next release of Ubuntu, oneiric ocelot, will have dom0-capable kernels in main and Xen (4.1, very likely) hypervisor/tools in universe. The plan is to have the hypervisor and tools in main in
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Castro, one of our Google Summer of Code students. We will aim to publish a GSoC student introduction every Monday. Later in the year, we will publish project updates. My Name is Daniel Castro, from Bogota Colombia. I have been accepted into
My name is Anthony Perard and I have been working on up-streaming Xen patches to the QEMU mainline. The good news is that the bulk of the changes for Xen are in the QEMU mainline as of yesterday. Let me begin a year ago, when I started working on this
One of the objectives that I was given, when I started as Xen.org community manager was to learn about the unwritten rules of how Xen.org governance works, write them down and make some improvement proposals. At this point, I wanted to present my findings and also make an
This is a guest blog post by Jiageng Yu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. This will be the first of a series of posts by our students. I am Jiageng Yu, a PHD candidate of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. My research areas