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
At Xen Summit last week, several community members and I discussed the issues around the recent launch of RHEL without Xen and its implications for Xen and the Xen.org community. I thought that I would share my opinions with a wider audience via this blog and hopefully get feedback
Can a Chameleon Change its Spots? I had lunch today with veteran virtualization blogger Alessandro Perilli, who was in the Seattle area for the Microsoft MVP Summit. Alessandro has repeatedly been the first to spot key industry trends. He is truly plugged-in, and brings to his analysis a level of
The Xen Community has completed a discussion around the selection of the proper tree for future development activities; from Keir Fraser on June 4th (full thread)… With 3.4 out the door it is time to revisit the state of our Linux repositories. Currently we have a number of trees
There has been a great deal of developer discussion lately around the proposed patches to extend the Linux kernel’s existing Xen support to include control domain capabilities (loosely known as “the dom0 patches”). These discussions are generating a great deal of interest in Xen and Linux so I thought
Continuing my testing of the new HXEN project… The current version of HXEN is focused on bringing up Windows guests (Vista & Windows 7); however, I wanted to see what happens if I bring up Linux guests. If anyone is also running Linux guests, I would like to get your
Citrix Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems. The base Satori components are released by Microsoft as the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V, and provide support for paravirtualized XenLinux guests running on Hyper-V.
From Tej Bewith on xen-devel: gcov is a test coverage program. generally used with GCC to analyze programs to help create more efficient, faster running code and to discover untested parts of your program. Software developers also use coverage testing in concert with testsuites, to make sure software is
Here is a link to a great blog posting containing a video called “Revolution OS – A History of Open Source” Â Â http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/23/revolution-os-history-of-open-source/. For those of you wanting to learn more, this is a great video.