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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The sixth release candidate for 4.0.1 is tagged as 4.0.1-rc6 at http://xenbits.xen.org/staging/xen-4.0-testing.hg We expect this to be the final RC, with no changes except for regression fixes ahead of final…
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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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Some pictures of the event with Jeremy Fitzhardinge - http://www.flickr.com/photos/35753147@N03/sets/72157624691411760/with/4877667436/.
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I received an email from Andres Lagar-Cavilla about an interesting post from GridCentric, a virtualization startup. Something that we think about a lot at GridCentric is how to ensure that…
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For those of you who did not see Jeremy Fitzhardinge's presentation at Xen User Group in LA you now have a chance to see his slides which I have updated…
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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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I am proud to announce our latest Community Member Spotlight on Dulloor Rao at http://www.xen.org/community/members.html. Dulloor recently presented at the Xen Summit North America at AMD 2010 : Guest NUMA…
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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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The team in Brazil has not just created a new LIVE DVD for Xen, they have also created a new XCP CD to handout to interested people. The new label…
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Marco Sinhoreli is speaking on August 10th at 2:20 pm on the Xen.org community, XCP initiative for Cloud Computing, and the Xen Hypervisor at the Cloud Computing Summit Brasil 2010.…
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Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter.…
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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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Now that Xen Directions South America is planned and ready to go for later this month, I am starting efforts on the planning of Xen Summit Asia 2010 which is…
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Check out this cool label for the soon to be released Xen Live DVD; thanks to Marco Sinhoreli - Thiago Martins and Linux Magazine folks for this great new label.…
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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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The final agenda for Xen Directions is available: English - Portuguese I will post the Speaker Profile document later today at http://www.xen.org/community/xenevents.html Thanks to Marco Sinhoreli and Boris Quiroz for…
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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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Post from Monica Kumar at Oracle: Check out this short animated demo of Oracle VM that shows key capabilities and benefits for users. In about 4 minutes, it walks through…
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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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Here are the final data points for July 2010 : GR_StatsJuly2010 Highlights: June and July 2010 Google Statistics stabilized around 78,000 unique visitors Increase of XCP downloads 20% (June to…
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I've just tagged 4.0.1-rc5 in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Please test! -- Keir
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