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 to be the new Why Xen? Slides for everyone to use. The slides are available at SlideShare Why xen
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 hypervisor and switched to using Xen in its later product releases.   When Virtual Iron
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 Support (PV) and (HVM) with Jun Nakajima (Slides & Video).
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 it's internal scratch allocations and never to free things
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 Owen Smith submits a patch that “creates a shared memory ring buffer
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 for this CD is: I anticipate getting about 500 copies of this CD after Xen Directions South America later this
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. I will be posting the slides for his talk shortly. If you are attending the event, please be
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 * Oracle VM Demo – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/02/really-cool-animated-demo-of-oracle-vm/ * Why Xen? White Paper – https:
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 after a fresh install. This is useful in case you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch,
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 being sponsored by Samsung and Korea University. The event is set for November 2 – 3, 2010 at the Lotte
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. Come to Xen Directions South America to get your Xen Live DVD or watch this blog for update on the posting
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 library (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/27/246) and I don't expect them to get in the