Xen 3.4.2 Announced
11/10/2009
Xen 3.4.2 is now available at http://www.xen.org/products/xen_source.html. Enjoy.
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Project XVP
11/09/2009
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
Libxenlight Released
11/09/2009
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
Project Remus 0.9 Released
11/06/2009
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
Xen 3.4.2 Third Release Candidate Available
11/05/2009
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.
XAPI Toolstack Release Details
11/03/2009
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.org Announces Availability of Xen Cloud Platform 0.1
11/03/2009
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
Announcing AutoVMbench from Fujitsu
10/30/2009
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
Second Release Candidate for Xen 3.4.2
10/28/2009
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!
Teo Ming Blog Link Added
10/28/2009
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/.
Xen Virtualization VGA Passthrough: Playing 3D FPS Games in Windows XP HVM Virtual Machine
10/26/2009
All the videos from Teo available here.
Even More Xen Videos...
10/26/2009
Mr. Teo En Ming is again posting more videos of his testing/benchmarking; enjoy.