From xen-devel: It is with great pleasure that I announce that now that the multiboot patch got commited in Xen’s unstable tree for the coming 4.0 release, I have merged GNU Mach’s Xen tree into master, i.e. although it has already been used for the Debian
From Michael Miller’s PCMag.com blog comes the Top Technologies of the Decade where Xen is mentioned… Check out the blog post.
I have added a new CLOUD project to the Xen.org community project page called AppScale from the University of California at Santa Barbara. From Professor Chandra Krintz: In the spirit of Eucalyptus (also from UCSB), we’ve implemented a cloud fabric (Platform-as-a-service) that emulates the Google App Engine cloud.
Xen Summit North America planning is underway for our next community event in Sunnyvale, CA at AMD’s facilities. The event is scheduled for April 21 – 22, 2010. Make sure to reserve those dates on your 2010 calendar.
We are very pleased to announce immediate availability of ConVirt 2.0 Beta! Built on a brand new, 3-tier, repository-based architecture, ConVirt 2.0 incorporates many of our users’ most wanted and anticipated features. For more information, please visit us at http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-2-0-beta-now-available/
I have added a new project to the community projects page on xen.org at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html. The great work from Teo En Ming is now easily found by people looking for interesting Xen related projects. The home page of this new project is at
I have finally completed the gathering of all the Xen Summit Asia information and it is available for your review at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_fall_2009.html. Included on this page are all slides in pdf format as well as HD videos of the presentations in .MTS
From Virtualization.info… In late November the FreeBSD team released FreeBSD 8.0. It finally introduces the experimental support for the Xen domU. This means that FreeBSD 8.0 can run as a (32bit only) Xen guest operating system. FreeBDS 8.0 also introduce a new experimental feature called â€
From Mr. Teo En Ming who is doing great Xen work… I have integrated the open source Xen hypervisor 3.4.3 RC1-pre and Jeremy Fitzhardinge’s pv-ops dom0-patched kernel 2.6.31.6 into my 64-bit build of ChromiumOS. With the integrated Xen virtualization support, you can now create
Virtualization Infrastructure Workshop 04 – Cloud DAY — Operators of a data center like web, hosting services in Japan are consider to use virtualiztion technology in there system design. But introducing virtualization technology makes new challenge for its operation. This workshop is formalized to active the discussion. This time of the workshop
Xen Orchestra 0.7 is now available at http://xen-orchestra.com/?p=138 . The new project is an entire code rewrite based on community feedback and the interface is web 2.0. If you are interested in being a beta tester or evaluating this solution with your hardware please
Xen Community: At the recent Xen Summit Asia event Noboru Iwamatsu from Fujitsu listed a collection of USB devices that he has tested with Xen for USB Pasthru. To assist everyone in the community in finding previously tested devices, I have created a new page on the Xen.org Wiki