As you may know, Fedora 16 will have full Xen support for Dom0 and DomU in it. Fedora is planning a number of test days as part of their release cycle, including a Virtualization Test on September 15th this year, which is tomorrow. We are calling our community members to
Quite a lot has happened the last few days and I seem to be forever catching up on reporting what is going on, rather than doing this in a timely matter. As a result, this post will be a potpourri of brief updates. Linux 3 with Xen support has been
Another guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Hi everybody, it’s midterm of Google Summer of Code now, let me tell you what I’ve done and learned during this period. I started working on the project in the community bonding period.
This is a guest blog post by Sagar Kadam, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Sagar’s GSoC project is called Porting Unix libc to Xen PV. Please welcome Sagar into the community. Hello all; I am Sagar Kadam from NYU Poly where I am pursuing my MS
About a year ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/272) my first patchset that laid the ground work to enable initial domain (dom0) was accepted in the Linux kernel. It was tiny: a total of around 50 new lines of code added. Great, except that it took me
This is a guest blog post by George Boutsioukis, one of our Google Summer of Code students. My name is George Boutsioukis and I’m a CS undergraduate at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. This is my second year in GSoC, after taking up a project last year for
You may remember the Community vote on the Xen Governance Proposal: well the deadline for the vote passed a few minutes ago and I closed the vote. There was almost unanimous for the proposal: * 92% in favor * 8% abstained I also got some constructive and encouraging feedback such as: * I
This is a very short blog post as both Wim Coekaert and Ewan Mellor beat me by some time in publishing this great news: I was too busy traveling and celebrating. The fantastic news is that Linux 3.0 will have everything necessary to run Xen as both as a
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Kiper, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Daniel’s GSoC project is called Recovery of crashed Linux. Please welcome Daniel into the community. My name is Daniel Kiper. I was born and live in Poland. I am a PhD student
This is a guest blog post by Wei Liu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. Please welcome Wei into the community. Hi, all. I’m Wei Liu, a graduate student from Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Our university is said to be one of the most beautiful universities
Last week I was at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest. The best news is: the next release of Ubuntu, oneiric ocelot, will have dom0-capable kernels in main and Xen (4.1, very likely) hypervisor/tools in universe. The plan is to have the hypervisor and tools in main in
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Castro, one of our Google Summer of Code students. We will aim to publish a GSoC student introduction every Monday. Later in the year, we will publish project updates. My Name is Daniel Castro, from Bogota Colombia. I have been accepted into