For those of you looking for details on the status of Paravirt_Ops, there is an updated Wiki page at: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
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To support the growing interest in having updated documentation for the Xen Hypervisor, I have created a Xen Wiki page where anyone interested in working on documentation or making a…
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I did a search of all the Xen related SourceForge.net projects and found a list of 63 projects. Many of the projects have no available download which I suppose means…
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Xen Community, The Xen Introspection Project holds the kick-off meeting today at 5pm EST and dial-in information is listed below. A new email address has been setup for this project,…
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Yesterday I met with SourceForge.net to discuss how Xen.org can better leverage their site and community. One interesting idea which I thought worthy of community feedback was the centralization of…
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Xen Community: I have started work on an update of the existing Xen Roadmap Document that Ian Pratt wrote in July 2006. The current document is in the Xen Wiki…
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A new community led project within Xen.org, the Xen Introspection Project, is being officially launched today. The purpose of the Xen Introspection Project is to design an API for performing…
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Xen 3.2.2, a maintenance release in the Xen 3.2 branch, is now available for download! Sources can be obtained as follows: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg (mercurial repository) http://www.xen.org/download/index_3.2.2.html (source tarball)
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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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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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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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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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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 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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I have created a new page on the Xen Wiki where anyone wishing to post change requests to the Xen Documentation can do so: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. If anyone makes any of…
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A new Xen management project has just been posted on the Xen.org Projects Page. The source code will be available soon for anyone interested in working on this project. Screen…
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The next XCI Project meeting is set for August 12, 2008 from 1 - 2pm EST. Please send me an email if you are interested in joining in. The agenda…
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With Xen 3.3 in final testing, it is time to start thinking about what features you would like to see in Xen 3.4. If you have any ideas for Xen…
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Yoshi Tamura from the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories in Japan gave a very interesting presentation on Kemari. Kemari is a new approach to cluster systems that synchronize VMs for fault…
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 For those of you who could not attend today's meeting on the Xen API Project; here are links to relevant information: Meeting Minutes are in the Xen Wiki API Project…
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The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2,…
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