For those of you with calendars reaching into 2009, please reserve February 24 - 25 for the first Xen Summit 0f 2009 hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA. We…
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The new website is live; please send me any problems you find so I can make fixes. Current Issues: 1) The Wiki did not transfer over to the new look…
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Project Snowflock is now available to the general public. We're making a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock. Briefly,…
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The Xen.org community will again be running a full day training session at an upcoming USENIX Event - LISA '08. For those of you going to event or looking for…
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One of the notable features of Xen 3.3 is to incorporate full support for processor power management features, C-states and P-states. Power management is getting more crucial not only for…
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Next week I will be part of a panel on virtualization at an HP event in NY for financial CIOs. The panel is focused on these topics about open source…
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To Xen customers: If you are using Xen, either as a direct download from the Xen.org site or from a partner who is leveraging Xen as their virtualization engine (e.g.…
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Ian Pratt and I were discussing the fact that open source Xen has no "mascot" like other open source projects and we joked about some possibilities (see my list below).…
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The Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) registration system is now active at https://www.regonline.com/xsasia08. For people who speak Japanese, please visit this site to assist with registration: http://xen.org/xensummit/How_to_register_Japanese.html. If you have any…
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For those of you interested in the next release of Xen, a new list of features is being compiled at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html. If you have any ideas you would like added,…
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The official Xen.org Press Release announcing Xen 3.3 has been posted here. There are many partner quotes in the release from Oracle, Novell, Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, Fujitsu, Samsung, Neocleus,…
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From Samuel Thibault: When having a look at how much CPU time is used when an HVM guest is idle, one can notice that the ioemu process used to permanently…
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From Samuel Thibault: The traditional way to configure a PV guest is to write in the configuration file the path to the kernel/initrd to be loaded. However, logically enough, these…
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From Samuel Thibault: To provide HVM domains with virtual hardware, Xen uses a modified version of qemu, ioemu. It used to run in dom0 as a root process, since it…
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From Samuel Thibault: Domain 0 running a lot of components like physical device drivers, the domain builder, ioemu device models, PyGRUB, etc. has been worrisome from a security point of…
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Shadow 3 is the next step in the evolution of the shadow pagetable code. By making the shadow pagetables behave more like a TLB, we take advantage of guest operating…
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I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In…
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Xen.org Community: As part of the Xen 3.3 release, I have asked the various development authors to supply me with information on their new features. Over the next few weeks,…
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Xen.org Community: As many of you are aware, I have been working the past few months to update the current Xen.org website to better target various users of the site…
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I have just posted Ian Pratt's slides from LinuxWorld at http://www.xen.org/files/IanPrattlinuxworld-xen-Aug2008.pdf. Feel free to take a look...
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Good news: The probably well-known (though still in beta), Xen-based service EC2 from Amazon is getting a new feature, that some(at least myself di) might have missed since a while:…
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August 27 is POWER IT DOWN DAY - Turn off the power cord that powers up your printer, computer, monitor, etc. to join a global effort in reducing power consumption.…
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For those of you wanting to see the slides from Simon Crosby's LinuxWorld Keynote, here they are. Entitled "Data Center of the Future: How the Delivery of Technology Will Change",…
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The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf. Dial-in information: 1.888.371.8921…
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Xen Community: As with all things in the community, I would like to give everyone a chance to comment on a new document. The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 requires…
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