Join 4.6 Release Candidate Testing on September 1, 2015 Although the Xen Project performs automated testing through the project's Test Lab, we also depend on manual testing of release candidates…
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And by "a ride", we actually mean a ride. Like this:  Like, will Xen run in your car? Well, it appears it will! It all started with ARM Support…
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The following monologue explains how Linux drivers are able to program a device when running in a Xen virtual machine on ARM. The problem that needs to be solved is…
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Some time ago Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (the Xen Linux maintainer) came up with a list of possible improvements to the Xen PV block protocol, which is used by Xen guests…
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The “Normal†Case To explain what is a Stub-Domain (often called stubdom), let’s start with the basics. When you start a new guest with Xen, you would need a Device…
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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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This post written collaboratively by Attilio Rao and George Dunlap Operating systems are generally written assuming that they are in direct control of the hardware. So when we run operating…
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If you are upgrading domain 0 Linux kernel from a non-pvops (classic, 2.6.18/2.6.32/etc.) kernel to a pvops one (3.0 or later), you may find that the amount of free memory…
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On March 18th, Linux 3.3 was released and it featured a number of interesting Xen related features. Re-engineered how tools can perform hypercalls - by using a standard interface (/dev/xen/privcmd…
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Linux 3.2 Linux 3.2 was released on Jan 4th and compared to earlier kernel releases, this one was very focused on fixing bugs reported by the community. Thank you!! Issues…
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Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk from Oracle shares technical background of Xen support in Linux 3 and tells us about his experiences and the lessons learned contributing Xen support to Linux.
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This is a very short blog post as both Wim Coekaert and Ewan Mellor beat me by some time in publishing this great news: I was too busy traveling and…
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Linux 2.6.37, released just few days ago, is the first upstream Linux kernel that can boot on Xen as Dom0... Just enabling CONFIG_XEN in the kernel config of a 2.6.37…
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At Xen Summit last week, several community members and I discussed the issues around the recent launch of RHEL without Xen and its implications for Xen and the Xen.org community.…
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Can a Chameleon Change its Spots? I had lunch today with veteran virtualization blogger Alessandro Perilli, who was in the Seattle area for the Microsoft MVP Summit. Alessandro has repeatedly…
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The Xen Community has completed a discussion around the selection of the proper tree for future development activities; from Keir Fraser on June 4th (full thread)... With 3.4 out the…
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There has been a great deal of developer discussion lately around the proposed patches to extend the Linux kernel's existing Xen support to include control domain capabilities (loosely known as…
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Continuing my testing of the new HXEN project... The current version of HXEN is focused on bringing up Windows guests (Vista & Windows 7); however, I wanted to see what…
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Citrix Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems. The base Satori components are…
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From Tej Bewith on xen-devel: gcov is a test coverage program. generally used with GCC to analyze programs to help create more efficient, faster running code and to discover untested…
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Here is a link to a great blog posting containing a video called "Revolution OS - A History of Open Source" Â Â http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/23/revolution-os-history-of-open-source/. For those of you wanting to learn…
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