Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena…
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Remus breaks the build - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00696.html Jeremy Fitzhardinge submitted a patch to fix a compile issue caused by Remus... "Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build…
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From Ian Campbell - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset:Â Â 21732:eb34666befcc user:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> date:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Fri Jul 02 17:46:01 2010 +0100 files:Â Â Â Â Â Â …
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From Stefano Stabellini - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is Anthony Perard. Developing this series we…
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From George Dunlap - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00673.html At the moment, the "weight" parameter for a VM is set on a per-VM basis. This means that when cpu time is scarce, two VMs…
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From Dave Scott - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-08/msg00031.html I've written a proposal on the wiki for "Cross-host VDI.copy" i.e. the ability to copy VDIs (disks) and therefore VMs between storage repositories on separate…
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On Sunday 8/8 the Xen Community lost one of its pioneers and staunch supporters, Alex Vasilevsky, to Cancer.  Alex was founder of Virtual Iron, which started out with a proprietary…
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Full RFC Patch - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00359.html It is libxl policy to return objects to callers which the caller must free. It therefore a matter of correctness for libxl to only free…
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To help the community get a better idea of the developer interactions, I am highlighting two xen-devel discussions a week on this blog. PV console for HVM domains - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00283.html…
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From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in…
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From Konrad Wilk on xen-devel: This patch set contains the groundwork and the driver itself for Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the Xen-SWIOTLB…
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As far as I can see, the "xe" command in XCP and XenServer is missing the options to implement the underlying VM.get_tags, VM.set_tags, VM.add_tags and VM.remove_tags Xen API calls to…
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I received an email from Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez who created OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager and is now working on OpenXenWebManager. Info to access the tool is: steps to test are: download from http://bit.ly/bres2U…
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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).…
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Please let me know if you notice any blog issues as I have done an upgrade today on the Wordpress platform.
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Great news for Xen.org from Oracle - http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/161333. News Facts Oracle today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their…
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From Alessandro Perilli: http://cloudcomputing.info/en/news/2010/07/yahoo-to-move-to-xen-for-cloud-computing.html In a roundtable hosted by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that took place last month, the Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! Surendra Reddy revealed…
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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…
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This Monday, I will be taking part in that time honoured tradition in the United States of being a juror in our legal system. More info to those of you…
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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…
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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…
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I'm working on now is an automated test framework, which will measure the effectivenes of the scheduler. This is actually a bit trickier than one might expect. You can't simply…
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We're pleased to announce the release of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5, a complete open-source cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management toolstack based on open APIs, support for…
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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…
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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: *…
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