Xen Community: I have added the Avaya Blog (http://www.avayablog.com/index.php) to the Xen.org blogroll for those interested in learning more about Avaya’s solutions and their leverage of Xen. Site map I am also close to finishing a new Xen.org Case Study with Avaya
The third release candidate for Xen 3.4.2 is available: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tagged 3.4.2-rc3) Please test! Depending on feedback this may be the final candidate before final release next week.
Xen Community: I am releasing the (very close to) final Event Agenda, Speaker Profiles, and Topic Abstracts. I expect some minor changes but this is basically the event information. Event Agenda – Speaker Profiles – Abstracts As is standard, all presentations will be videotaped and posted on Xen.org along with the
From Dave Scott on xen mailing lists: We are pleased to announce the open-sourcing of the ‘xapi’ toolstack — as used in the Citrix XenServer product line. The xapi toolstack is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 with a special static linking exception. The toolstack: * manages the lifecycle of VMs (installing
Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.1 is an effort by several community members to create a complete open source virtual infrastructure solution (Hypervisor + Management Toolstack) as a reference architecture for cloud deployments. This 0.1 release provides a stable platform on which to build, and to provoke community discussion about
From SearchServerVirtualization.com comes an article about Xen.org, XenServer, Citrix, and open source… Simon Crosby, Citrix Systems’ chief technology officer and founder of XenSource, is our guest on this edition of This Week in Virtualization. Citrix has decided to open source XenServer, its free server virtualization hypervisor, as part
From xen-devel: We are pleased to announce AutoVMbench; an automating benchmaking tool for virtualization environments. The site is following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/autovmbench/ This tool can run following 4 benchmarks at this moment. 1) iozone 2) netperf 3) kernel build 4) unixbench For more details, Please check the
The second release candidate for Xen 3.4.2 is available: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tagged 3.4.2-rc2) Please test!
I have added Teo Ming’s blog to the Blogroll on this site as he continues to create great videos of Xen in action. His blog is available at http://teo-en-ming-aka-zhang-enming.blogspot.com/.
Oracle VM 2.2 New Feature: CPU Scheduling Priority and Cap From Oracle Blog : One of the new features in Oracle VM 2.2 is the ability to set virtual CPU scheduling priority and cap per VM from Oracle VM Manager, which enables you to control access to CPU between
All the videos from Teo available here.
Mr. Teo En Ming is again posting more videos of his testing/benchmarking; enjoy.