Does your head ache because you’ve been beating it against a stone wall when trying to build Xen binary executables from the distributed source code? I know how you feel! I’ve been fighting that good fight too for a while now. I’ve learned some amazing facts as
From xen-devel: I am pleased to announce “libxenlight”, a new small and lightweight C library that refactors existing code in a coherent and easy to use API to interface to the hypervisor and xenstore to perform operations such as domain creation and destruction, suspend/restore and pci passthrough. The goals
From xen-devel: It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Remus 0.9! Remus provides comprehensive fault tolerance for Xen virtual machines. If the physical machine hosting your VM fails, the backup can take over instantly, as if you had migrated it to the backup at the instant before
As a follow-up to Avaya’s recent announcement of their Avaya Auraâ„¢ System Platform based on the Xen hypervisor, I have created a Xen.org case study with Avaya, Xen.org Avaya Case Study.
Xen Community: I have added the Avaya Blog (http://www.avayablog.com/index.php) to the Xen.org blogroll for those interested in learning more about Avaya’s solutions and their leverage of Xen. Site map I am also close to finishing a new Xen.org Case Study with Avaya
The third release candidate for Xen 3.4.2 is available: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tagged 3.4.2-rc3) Please test! Depending on feedback this may be the final candidate before final release next week.
I am planning to revamp the way that Xen.org measures itself starting in Q1 2010 and have drafted a plan for community review and input. The document Project Golden Ratio is currently in pdf and I can get you an odt version if you would like to edit it
Xen Community: I am releasing the (very close to) final Event Agenda, Speaker Profiles, and Topic Abstracts. I expect some minor changes but this is basically the event information. Event Agenda – Speaker Profiles – Abstracts As is standard, all presentations will be videotaped and posted on Xen.org along with the
From Dave Scott on xen mailing lists: We are pleased to announce the open-sourcing of the ‘xapi’ toolstack — as used in the Citrix XenServer product line. The xapi toolstack is licensed under the LGPL v2.1 with a special static linking exception. The toolstack: * manages the lifecycle of VMs (installing
Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.1 is an effort by several community members to create a complete open source virtual infrastructure solution (Hypervisor + Management Toolstack) as a reference architecture for cloud deployments. This 0.1 release provides a stable platform on which to build, and to provoke community discussion about
From SearchServerVirtualization.com comes an article about Xen.org, XenServer, Citrix, and open source… Simon Crosby, Citrix Systems’ chief technology officer and founder of XenSource, is our guest on this edition of This Week in Virtualization. Citrix has decided to open source XenServer, its free server virtualization hypervisor, as part
From xen-devel: We are pleased to announce AutoVMbench; an automating benchmaking tool for virtualization environments. The site is following URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/autovmbench/ This tool can run following 4 benchmarks at this moment. 1) iozone 2) netperf 3) kernel build 4) unixbench For more details, Please check the