Latest on Xen Paravirt_Ops
11/26/2008
For those of you looking for details on the status of Paravirt_Ops, there is an updated Wiki page at: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
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Xen Document Project
11/25/2008
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
Xen Projects on SourceForge.net
11/19/2008
I did a search of all the Xen related SourceForge.net projects and found a list of 63 projects. Many of the projects have no available download which I suppose means that it was not completed (?); however, I found many projects with downloads available for users. The complete list of
Xen Introspect Project Update
11/12/2008
Xen Community, The Xen Introspection Project holds the kick-off meeting today at 5pm EST and dial-in information is listed below. A new email address has been setup for this project, xen-introspect@lists.xensource.com. You can subscribe to this mailing list at http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-introspect. There
Xen.org and SourceForge.net
11/07/2008
Yesterday I met with SourceForge.net to discuss how Xen.org can better leverage their site and community. One interesting idea which I thought worthy of community feedback was the centralization of all projects associated with Xen into a single “portal” with a shared Wiki, message board, etc. This concept
Xen Roadmap Document
10/30/2008
Xen Community: I have started work on an update of the existing Xen Roadmap Document that Ian Pratt wrote in July 2006. The current document is in the Xen Wiki at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenRoadMap. As Xen is a community effort, I am looking for content from developers
NEW: Xen Introspection Project Launching...
10/27/2008
A new community led project within Xen.org, the Xen Introspection Project, is being officially launched today. The purpose of the Xen Introspection Project is to design an API for performing VM introspection and implement the necessary functionality into Xen. It is anticipated that the project will include the following
Xen 3.2.2 Released
09/18/2008
Xen 3.2.2, a maintenance release in the Xen 3.2 branch, is now available for download! Sources can be obtained as follows: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg (mercurial repository) http://www.xen.org/download/index_3.2.2.html (source tarball)
Project Snowflock Available
09/13/2008
Project Snowflock is now available to the general public. We’re making a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock. Briefly, Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different
Xen 3.3 Feature - C & P State Power Management
09/11/2008
One of the notable features of Xen 3.3 is to incorporate full support for processor power management features, C-states and P-states. Power management is getting more crucial not only for clients, but also for servers. C/P is from ACPI nomenclature which stand for different set of power/thermal
Xen 3.4 Feature List
08/29/2008
For those of you interested in the next release of Xen, a new list of features is being compiled at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html. If you have any ideas you would like added, please email myself or xen-devel so the information can be added to this roadmap
Xen 3.3 Feature: Optimized HVM Video Memory Tracking
08/28/2008
From Samuel Thibault: When having a look at how much CPU time is used when an HVM guest is idle, one can notice that the ioemu process used to permanently take something like 7%. This is because ioemu used to keep checking the content of the HVM video RAM for