I’m currently writing a new scheduler, credit2, which I mean to be the general-purpose scheduler for the next generation of Xen, lasting at least several years before needing a significant overhaul. But there are some problems with writing a scheduler: * They’re used in every workload that uses a
For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting – the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit the wiki page to ensure that all the major issues are addressed.
Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US EST Location: IRC #xen-api on Freenode Dial-In: 1.888.371.8921 Code: 275279 International Toll
I came across a list of packages that are required to compile the latest version of Xen; simply run this command: apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev gawk gettext python-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev mercurial git-core curl ncurses-dev bcc iasl libpci-dev ocaml Thanks to George Dunlap for this information. From Pasi – also check out
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 Dave Scott: The third (final?) release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html The changes since the RC2 are: * it should now be possible to upgrade from previous RCs as
On July 7, 2010 the Xen.org community will be hosting the 2nd Xen Community Meeting to discuss XCP development issues. This meeting will be the follow-up to meeting #1 <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings>. Details follow: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 13:00
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.
As part of the 2010 Annual Xen.org survey response, I intend to push out more developer related content to the community via this blog… From: Dave Scott Re: Compressing VM Exports by Default In XCP a VM “export” is a serialized VM, including metadata and usually raw disk blocks.
It is time to start thinking about our 2nd XCP meeting for the Xen.org XCP team. The last meeting was held on May 25, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. Notes are at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. For the next meeting I
The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg
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