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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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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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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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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Question on Credit accounting in Credit Scheduler - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01637.html Thomas Pfeuffer has questions about the csched_acct() function and the formulas used to determine the credit_fair value. Tim Deegan and George…
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Ian Campbell has proposed the following in xen-devel at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01457.html: Currently the configuration syntax available in a domain configuration has several ways of specifying devices, some of which have slightly…
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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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A few weeks back, Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini proposed that some files in the Xen.org community have their license changed: The Xen source base includes two low level libraries…
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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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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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Tag '4.0.1-rc4' is now available at http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg. Please test!
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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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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 xen-devel mailing list, an introduction and proposal from Daniel Kiper on his project (see email and community responses to proposal at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg00410.html): This year I put an proposal regarding…
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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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For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting - the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit…
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Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US…
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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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