From Ian Campbell – 8 Request for Comment Patches at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00099.html This series is an RFC (I couldn’t convince “hg email” to mark mails other than the first as such). The series introduces auto-generation of the type definitions used in the
I’ve just tagged 4.0.1-rc5 in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Please test! — Keir
* Question on Credit accounting in Credit Scheduler – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01637.html Thomas Pfeuffer has questions about the csched_acct() function and the formulas used to determine the credit_fair value. Tim Deegan and George Dunlap respond with comments on the integer division rounding up
Ian Campbell has proposed the following in xen-devel at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01457.html: Currently the configuration syntax available in a domain configuration has several ways of specifying devices, some of which have slightly unexpected semantics wrt whether or not an emulated device is created,
I have taken down the Xen Cloud Platform Administrative Guide from the Xen.org website for some maintenance. Several people have found some content that needed to be removed and I am having problems re-converting the updated XML file into pdf. The document will remain UNDER CONSTRUCTION until I can
A few weeks back, Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini proposed that some files in the Xen.org community have their license changed: The Xen source base includes two low level libraries (libxenctrl.so and libxenguest.so) which provide low level services to toolstacks and other components of the Xen system.
As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
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Tag ‘4.0.1-rc4’ is now available at http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg. Please test!
From Rob Hoes: To isolate network traffic between VMs (e.g. for security reasons) one can use VLANs. The number of possible VLANs on a network, however, is limited, and setting up a VLAN requires configuring the physical switches in the network. GRE tunnels provide a similar, though more flexible
As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
From xen-devel mailing list, an introduction and proposal from Daniel Kiper on his project (see email and community responses to proposal at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg00410.html): This year I put an proposal regarding migration from memory ballooning to memory hotplug in Xen to Google