Xen Summit Asia 2010 in Seoul, Korea (Nov 2-3) is now accepting applications for topics/speakers at http://xensummit.org. This online tool allows speakers to enter topics/abstracts and submit papers if they so choose for review by the Program Committee. Please enter your ideas at this site so
Jeremy Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena (Quake clone) under your Dom0 (and you could do theoretically that under DomU, but
I am pleased to introduce the Program Committee for Xen Summit Asia at Samsung: * Patrick Colp * Ian Pratt * Sang-bum Suh * Pradeep Padala * Chuck Yoo * Todd Deshane * Jun Nakajima * Eddie Dong * Dan Magenheimer * Hitoshi Matsumoto I look forward to a great event this November in Seoul, Korea. I will be posting
* [PATCH] Remus breaks the build – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00696.html Jeremy Fitzhardinge submitted a patch to fix a compile issue caused by Remus… “Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build in the kernel directory. This assumes that we’re actually building
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. Xen News * Community Member Spotlight Dulloor Rao – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/09/community-member-spotlight-dulloor-rao/ * Virtualization and over-subscription:
From Ian Campbell – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset:Â Â 21732:eb34666befcc user:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> date:Â Â
From Stefano Stabellini – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is Anthony Perard. Developing this series we tried to come up with the cleanest possible solution from the qemu
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 with the same weight will be given the same amount of
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 release late next week. So please test this RC!
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 XCP hosts: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Cross-host_VDI.
Some pictures of the event with Jeremy Fitzhardinge – http://www.flickr.com/photos/35753147@N03/sets/72157624691411760/with/4877667436/.
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 resources are used efficiently. In fact, that’s what led us to create Copper in the first place — seeing how