My name is Anthony Perard and I have been working on up-streaming Xen patches to the QEMU mainline. The good news is that the bulk of the changes for Xen are in the QEMU mainline as of yesterday. Let me begin a year ago, when I started working on this
One of the objectives that I was given, when I started as Xen.org community manager was to learn about the unwritten rules of how Xen.org governance works, write them down and make some improvement proposals. At this point, I wanted to present my findings and also make an
This is a guest blog post by Jiageng Yu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. This will be the first of a series of posts by our students. I am Jiageng Yu, a PHD candidate of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. My research areas
by Stefano Stabellini Linux 2.6.37, released just few days ago, is the first upstream Linux kernel that can boot on Xen as Dom0: Linus pulled my “xen initial domain” patch series on the 28th of October and on the 5th of January the first Linux kernel was released
As many of you know, XenSummit Asia 2010, originally planned for Nov 3-4 in Seoul, Korea, is being postponed. The current plan is to push back the event by about a month, and possibly expand it to include a user “XenDirections” track. Until we hire a new community Xen.org
There will be another Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) call this week on Thursday, October 14th. We’ll post an agenda and some slides before the meeting happens. If there is anything anybody particularly wants to discuss, please get in touch! Call details below: Meeting Date: Â October 14, 2010 Time:
From Andre Przywara: while experimenting with guest NUMA configurations I realized that Xen injects the host’s core number into each guest. I believe this behavior is wrong, the number of cores should somehow be dependent from the number of VCPUs. Currently a CPUID decoding tool of mine gives me
RELEASE-4.0.1 has been tagged in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Browsing the above URL will show the mercurial changelog contains many many bug fixes since 4.0.0. We recommend all users to upgrade. A source tarball will soon be available from http://www.xen.org/
As part of the new Why Xen? document series, I am announcing the Why Xen? brochure for community use: here. Also available are the following: * White Paper -Â http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhyXen.pdf * Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/why-xen-slides As is standard, if you
From Ian Campbell: As previously discussed we would like to relicense libxc under the LGPL. https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/07/26/xen-org-source-code-license-change-request/ http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01378.html We have now managed to track down all but one of the necessary contributors in order
Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena (Quake clone) under your Dom0 (and you could do theoretically that under DomU, but
* [PATCH] Remus breaks the build – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00696.html Jeremy Fitzhardinge submitted a patch to fix a compile issue caused by Remus… “Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build in the kernel directory. This assumes that we’re actually building