The blkback/blkfront drivers developed by the original Xen team was lightweight and fast zero-copy protocol that has served well for many years. However, as the number of physical cores and…
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A couple of weeks ago I went to Copenhagen to attend Linaro Connect and Ubuntu Developer Summit for the first time. I was really impressed by the size of the…
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In part 1 of this series, I introduced the concepts of full virtualization and paravirtualization (PV), as well as the hardware virtualization (HVM) feature used by Xen (among other things)…
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As usual, Fedora has planned a number of test days for their upcoming Fedora 18 release, including include a Virtualization Test Day on November 1st (tomorrow!). We are therefore calling all our…
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A few weeks ago, we launched our first XCP User Survey. We nearly had 500 responses when I compiled a preliminary analysis of the survey results. First, I wanted to…
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At XenSummit 2012 in San Diego, Mukesh Rathor from Oracle presented his work on a new virtualization mode, called "PVH". Adding this mode, there are now a rather dizzying array…
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One of the issues in any software project can be the disconnect between what users want or would find useful, and the developers' idea of what users want or would…
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Last weekend Linus Torvalds pulled the Xen on ARM patches in his Linux tree, so as of Saturday the 7th of October, we have Xen ARM in upstream Linux! This…
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Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! The release is available from http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.6.0.html See the relelase notes for more details: http://xen.org/download/xcp/release_notes_1.6.0.html
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This is another post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering Xen integrations with Apache Cloudstack and OpenStack: Xen and CloudStack: Ewan…
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Figuring out "what's going on?" is always something very important. For example, knowing what processes were running on which processors can be very useful if you are doing OS development…
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This is the second blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering seemingly unrelated topics - but you will realize they…
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We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and…
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Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of code of development…
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This will be the first blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week we will cover project roadmap and futures presentations. Note that you can…
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Xen has always supported a wide variety of operating systems as guests while the host-side has always been less bright. Infact, at the moment, most of the host choice is…
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Last week, has been a great week for our community. We had the Xen Developer Meeting, XenSummit and a presence at Linux Plumbers Conference, LinuxCon and CloudOpen. It has been…
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Just a quick update on the Xen 4.2 release. 4.2.0-rc3 was released on 23 August and we intend to release rc4 around the end of the week. Barring any last…
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I'd like talk about the xen-tools package, which is found in Debian-derived distros. It's a straightforward Xen VM provisioning tool with an unusual but attractive approach. I use it in…
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As you all know, the Xen Developer Meeting, XenSummit, Linux Plumbers, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are all happening this week. We will be publishing slides and videos in the coming days:…
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Monday we closed the poll for the security discussion. Thank you everyone who participated! The process has not turned up a hidden option that everyone agreed on; however, it has…
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There's been a lot of good progress in the Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions port since I first blogged about it here. Thanks to some recent work, mainly by…
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Just a quick reminder that the first Xen Test Day is today, August 14th. The focus of the test day is to test Xen 4.2 RC2, in your environment with…
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Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.0.4 and 4.1.3. These are available immediately from the download pages Xen Hypervisor 4.1.3: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.1.3) Xen Hypervisor…
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