In my continuing series of XCP tutorials, I am focusing today on the installation of PV Drivers on your Windows Guest. In my last tutorial, I reviewed the steps in installing a Windows 7 guest on XCP, see here. STEP 1 – Have your Windows Guest up and running and visible
I noticed that my past two guests (Oracle VM and Windows 7 VM) were both unable to connect to the Internet once I had them installed. Here are the steps I took to correct the problem on OpenXenCenter and get Internet connectivity working on my XCP guests. 1) For your
I am back with more tutorials on Xen Cloud Platform (XCP); this time with instructions on creating and starting a new Windows 7 guest from a CD. NOTE – I am running the Windows 7 guest as HVM and have not tried to load the Windows PV Drivers that come with
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
I am pleased to announce that Xen.org has been accepted as a mentor organization into Google Summer of Code 2010. You can get all the information on Google Summer of Code at http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/home/google/gsoc2010. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Xen.org is expanding our events in 2010 with two new events: * Xen Directions South America – In conjunction with a soon to be announced Linux Foundation event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on August 31 – September 1. * Xen Directions North America – In conjunction with LinuxCon 2010 in Boston, MA we will
I have activated the Xen Summit at AMD event registration site at http://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd for next month’s Xen Summit in Sunnyvale, CA from April 28-29, 2010. The event cost is $235 which includes food and snacks on both days during the sessions, an evening
Thanks to Heechul Kim for translating the Xen.org Community Overview into Korean. The document is here.
A new python based migration utility for migrating your xend virtual machines to XCPÂ is now available at: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_projects.html It can generate XVAs from your xend based HVM and paravirtualised virtual machines. It can also steam your VM directly to a XenServer/XCP
From Vincent Hanquez on xen-devel: I’m please to announce the availability of repositories [1,2] for the xen cloud platform tools [3] on xen-unstable. The goal of these repositories is to make compilation of the XCP platform toolstack: * “easier” than in the current form. * available with bleeding edge
From Dave Scott: I’ve collected together a bunch of XCP-related project suggestions and stuck them on the xen wiki: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_project_suggestions The main idea is that new people who want to work on XCP can use this list for inspiration… each idea has
From Keir on Tuesday (sorry about delay, I was on vacation)… Folks, ‘4.0.0-rc6’ is now tagged at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg Pretty close now. Please test!