On March 18th, Linux 3.3 was released and it featured a number of interesting Xen related features. * Re-engineered how tools can perform hypercalls – by using a standard interface (/dev/xen/privcmd instead of using /proc/xen/privcmd) * Backends (netback, blkback) can now function in HVM mode. This means that
Hi everyone! I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student who is pursuing his master’s degree from China. If you read posts on blog.xen.org from time to time, you might remember me. I was participant of Google Summer of Code 2011 and worked on “Virtio on Xen” project
We have hit the next milestone in the release plan for Xen 4.2: * 19 March — TODO list locked down * 2 April — Feature Freeze WE ARE HERE * Mid/Late April — First release candidate * Weekly — RCN+1 until it is ready We are therefore now in Feature
Since early January I have been tracking the status of work left to do before 4.2 by posting a weekly roundup of the remaining blockers and “nice to haves”. You can find these in the xen devel list archives, posted most Monday mornings. Last week I decided that the
It took me a while to write up my impressions from the first Oracle hosted Hackathon last week: I have to apologize for not being timelier. First, I wanted to thank Oracle for hosting the event and providing a beautiful venue in Santa Clara. Special thanks go to Doan Nguyen
Back in november we announced our effort to port Xen to the ARM Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions. I am very pleased to say that as of xen-unstable.hg changeset 24741:fb71a97fe339 the initial patches for this port are now part of the mainline Xen code base and will be
Dear Xen Developers, I wanted to announce that Ian Campbell from Citrix has been nominated and elected as Xen Hypervisor committer and will be responsible for the ARMv7+VE components in xen-unstable. We have seen an increasing number of patches to xen-unstable to enable support for the ARMv7 processor with
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of these projects are examples of standing on the shoulders of giants. * In 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge announced the plan
On October 26th, the Xen Developers will facilitate the first Xen Document Day. This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, etc. * Improve important wiki pages: this means fixing important pages, retiring old ones,
Dear Xen developers, I wanted to announce that Jan Beulich from Novell has been nominated as Xen Hypervisor committer and confirmed by vote by the other Xen committers, namely Keir Fraser, Tim Deegan and Ian Jackson. Congratulations Jan! Jan’s Contribution Jan has made a tremendous contribution to the project
One of the fun things about a hackathon is the chance to get everyone together in a room and just talk about crazy ideas you might try at some point in the future. One of the advantage that a certain competing virtualization technology has over Xen is that you don’
It is day 3 of the Munich Hackathon and I wanted to thank Fujitsu and Jürgen Groß for hosting and organizing the event, as well as the social activities in the evening. Besides the coding, networking and getting to know each other which is always a key part of