Over the last decade the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software, I/O virtualization
I have successfully navigated my way home from Shanghai, China and have lots to tell about the amazing Xen Summit Asia event at Intel. To help you get a feel for the size of the crowd here is a short clip of people waiting to complete their registration: This was
At Xen Summit Asia Ian Pratt announced two new members of the Xen Advisory Board – Fujitsu and VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. Here is a short clip of Ian making that announcement: Xen Summit Asia- Xen Advisory Board Announcement from xencom_mgr on Vimeo.
The Xen community is pleased to announce the addition of Fujitsu and VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. to the Xen Advisory Board. Fujitsu and VA Linux Systems joins other leading enterprise vendors to offer expertise and leadership to promote the Xen hypervisor as the industry standard in open source
From Ewan Mellor on Citrix Community Blog: One of the most common requests from XenServer customers is for a web interface, so that they can manage their VMs from a browser. I’m pleased to say that I’ve found one! It’s called xvp, and has been developed by
From xen-devel: I am pleased to announce “libxenlight”, a new small and lightweight C library that refactors existing code in a coherent and easy to use API to interface to the hypervisor and xenstore to perform operations such as domain creation and destruction, suspend/restore and pci passthrough. The goals
From xen-devel: It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Remus 0.9! Remus provides comprehensive fault tolerance for Xen virtual machines. If the physical machine hosting your VM fails, the backup can take over instantly, as if you had migrated it to the backup at the instant before
As a follow-up to Avaya’s recent announcement of their Avaya Auraâ„¢ System Platform based on the Xen hypervisor, I have created a Xen.org case study with Avaya, Xen.org Avaya Case Study.
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
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