Background: Introduction to Xen PV Bootloaders In the very early days of Xen it was necessary for the host (domain 0) administrator to explicitly supply a kernel (and perhaps initial ramdisk) from the domain 0 filesystem in order to start a new guest. This mostly worked and for some use
XCP is Dead; Long Live XenServer! Last year was a momentous year for all things related to the Xen Project. 2013 saw Xen Project become a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. It also saw the separate XenServer project become Open Source under the auspices of Citrix Systems. And,
Yes, today (Tuesday, October 8th) is one of the Fedora 20 Test Days, more specifically, Virtualization Test Day. Specific information regarding testing Xen on the new Fedora can be found in this Wiki page. For attending and participating, join us now on IRC at #fedora-test-day (Freenode)! Fedora 20 will be
We had a look at the documentation for Project Kronos, and decided that it needed some significant improvement, so there’s been a good deal of rewriting and restructuring. You’ll now find a Project Kronos main page, with an introduction to the project, and a set of pages linked
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
I have spoken with several community members today at Xen Summit and they have great project ideas for Xen but not enough time to work on them. I am also aware that many university students are looking for research projects for their masters or phd work and would like to
Ke Yu from Intel has created a new Power Management Wiki Page with details on the ongoing development work – http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/xenpm.
For those of you curious about the Xen Document project, you can see the latest at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. All documentation requests are posted on the site along with people who are working on the updates and status of those changes. Please contact me if you
Xen Community: I have been working on the new Xen Roadmap Document and almost have it complete. I would like to get feedback from the community on the current version of the document. Please let me know if we need to add more sections, update existing sections, remove sections, etc.
I have updated the Xen Wiki section for “Who is Doing What”. The page is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/WhosDoingWhat. Please check the content to either add a new section with your name, update the current information with email links, or add details on the particular feature you
To support the growing interest in having updated documentation for the Xen Hypervisor, I have created a Xen Wiki page where anyone interested in working on documentation or making a request for documentation can track the community effort. The page is http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject and contains
I received an email today from Igor Chubin who informed me of his efforts to translate the Xen Wiki and documentation into Russian. I added the Russian Wiki link to the current Xen Wiki Tranlsation Home Page – http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenTranslation. The link to the Xen 3.