In the second posting on my explorations with Xen 3.3.1, I am going to highlight the steps I followed and problems I had when launching a simple pre-built DomU image. Like my compiling Xen post – this is not for regular Xen users but for people thinking of trying
From Simon Crosby’s Citrix blog posting We’ve Open Sourced Our Optimized VHD Support: Today Dutch Meyer of UBC, and Jake Wires of the Citrix XenServer storage team in Vancouver submitted our implementation of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in
From Jeremy Fitzhardinge in xen-devel: http://markmail.org/thread/tww7aqawwn4r4fnk Over the last week I’ve been migrating the Xen paravirt_ops tree from a Mercurial patch-queue based model to a git tree. This makes it easier for me to work with the various Linux kernel subsystem maintainers in
From Tej Bewith on xen-devel: gcov is a test coverage program. generally used with GCC to analyze programs to help create more efficient, faster running code and to discover untested parts of your program. Software developers also use coverage testing in concert with testsuites, to make sure software is
I have discovered that the xen.markmail.org site is not working correctly at this time. It has not pulled in the last 2 days of Xen community mailing list emails. I have notified MarkMail and will update the comments of this post when everything is working normally.
Xen Community: Last year, I spent some time getting Xen to work on a machine by leveraging a pre-existing package with Xen built-in (https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/04/08/install-and-run-xen-on-fedora-8/). I have now taken the effort further and decided to download the latest stable release, Xen 3.3.
The final agenda for Xen Summit at Oracle is available at http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_oracle09/xensummit_agenda.pdf. The abstracts are also available at http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_oracle09/xensummit_abstracts.pdf. Speaker profiles at http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_oracle09/xensummit_speakers.pdf.
I am launching a new format to the Xen Community Weekly today and have a few questions for the community: 1) Do you want to have a complete list of patches released during the week in this document? 2) What type of information from xen-users would people like to see
From August 11 – 12, 2009 the Xen.org community will be hosting a booth in the combined LinuxWord/Next Generation Data Center exhibit hall to promote our Xen hypervisor and related solutions. The event is at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CAÂ as part of the larger LinuxWorld
I wanted to update everyone on the success of the translation of the About Xen page on Xen.org (http://www.xen.org/about/). The early trends are showing two groupings of languages in terms of readership: 1) German, Spanish, and Japanese 2) Chinese and Portuguese In terms of
Xen Community: The Abstracts for the coming Xen Summit at Oracle event are now available for review. The event agenda is in final stages and should be released by Friday of this week. Many of the speakers created 1 or 2 page documents detailing their presentation and I expect
I have added information and a link to a new project on the Xen.org Project Page: Isolated Execution; project home page is http://isolated-exec.sourceforge.net/. For more information on this project, see https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/12/12/security-through-isolation-in-xen/