From Vincent Hanquez on xen-devel: I’m please to announce the availability of repositories [1,2] for the xen cloud platform tools [3] on xen-unstable. The goal of these repositories is to make compilation of the XCP platform toolstack: * “easier” than in the current form. * available with bleeding edge
From Dave Scott: I’ve collected together a bunch of XCP-related project suggestions and stuck them on the xen wiki: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_project_suggestions The main idea is that new people who want to work on XCP can use this list for inspiration… each idea has
From Keir on Tuesday (sorry about delay, I was on vacation)… Folks, ‘4.0.0-rc6’ is now tagged at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg Pretty close now. Please test!
Hannover, March 5, 2010 – Xen, Intel, AdBlock, Google Android, OpenStreetMap, and Linux kernel programmers were winners of the 10th annual Linux New Media Awards, presented last evening at the CeBIT 2010 conference in Hannover, Germany. A jury of approximately 300 experts from the open source community nominated the candidates
Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with
From virtualization.info: Oracle just released its first updated for VirtualBox after the acquisition of Sun. The list of bugs corrected in version 3.1.4 is long but there are no new features . An interesting thing is that the company decided to change the default behavior of the engine:
Nice blog posting from Open Source Zenoss at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocializedSoftware/~3/tSQHqVWdS9s/. This week I am very excited because we released Zenoss Core 2.5.2 with a cool new feature, Xen hypervisor monitoring. I am very happy to see Zenoss put this out as
As the final part of this XCP tutorial, I wanted to add one more item that I discovered when booting up my HVM guest from a CD image. After complete all the memory and VM setup issues I got the following response to starting my new VM: xe vm-start uuid=
As a continuation on my previous XCP Tutorial, I wanted to share some experiences with memory problems that have been a hindrance in my successful installation of new VMs on XCP. 1) Too much memory is taken up in my local storage repository (SR) – with each attempt to create a
I am back with new information on XCP and the steps I used to launch a HVM guest from a CD on my XCP server. I will also be adding another blog posting about the memory issues I faced during this procedure but are probably not a common issue for
As we have completed another month, I have updated the Project Golden Ratio tracking sheet with February 2010 data. It is important to remember that February only has 28 days so some of the data items are a bit smaller but the trends on monthly statistics are already clear. The
Thanks to everyone for voting on the Xen.org Mascot Contest. I have closed the first round of voting and we have three clear favorites for the finals: Entry #5 – Zen Penguin from Dana Rawding Entry #1 – Bonsai Tree form Joe Shon Entry #10 – Sitting Panda Chewing Bamboo from Valentin