I’m pleased to announce the release of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8. As always, we focused on improving code quality, security hardening as well as enabling new features. One area of interest and particular focus is new feature support for ARM servers. Over the last few months, weâ€
From Andres Lagar-Cavilla: Rejoice! A new version of SnowFlock is out there.. This is a bugfix update in preparation for a 64bit release. Some of the things we fixed include: – Exception handling and lock-up avoidance in the control plane – Compatibility with “vanilla” Xen suspend/resume and migration – Better MPI scalability
Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly