It’s been a while since the last 4.2 release update and a lot has changed since then, so I suppose it is time for another update. Way back at the start of April I posted the previous update which suggested we’d be doing the first release candidates
This is a guest blog post by Patrick F. Wilbur, a long-time Xen user and active member of the Xen community. You might know me from Xen Day and Xen training events in the past, or perhaps from the Running Xen book. I recently taught a lesson in an operating
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 systems in virtual machines, where they share the hardware with other operating systems, this can sometimes cause problems. One of
Fedora is planning a number of test days as part of their release cycle, including a Virtualization Test Day on April 12th (this Thursday). Information about the virtualization test day can be found here. We will have some people hanging out on IRC at #fedora-test-day and you can also get
We have hit the next milestone in the release plan for Xen 4.2: * 19 March — TODO list locked down * 2 April — Feature Freeze WE ARE HERE * Mid/Late April — First release candidate * Weekly — RCN+1 until it is ready We are therefore now in Feature
Since early January I have been tracking the status of work left to do before 4.2 by posting a weekly roundup of the remaining blockers and “nice to haves”. You can find these in the xen devel list archives, posted most Monday mornings. Last week I decided that the
The XCP team would like to announce Project Zeus, our port of the XCP toolstack to Fedora and CentOS (through the EPEL). This is a follow-on to Project Kronos, which brought the XCP toolstack to Debian-based systems. This will give users the ability to do ‘yum install xcp-xapi’ to build
Virtual Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying cloud computing infrastructure. I’ll be presenting the XCP
Back in november we announced our effort to port Xen to the ARM Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions. I am very pleased to say that as of xen-unstable.hg changeset 24741:fb71a97fe339 the initial patches for this port are now part of the mainline Xen code base and will be
I’m happy to announce that XCP 1.5 Beta is available! This release comes with a number of new features, most notably the Xen 4.1 hypervisor. Please go to the downloads page to download and test the beta release. If you would like to report a possible bug,
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of these projects are examples of standing on the shoulders of giants. * In 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge announced the plan
As I mentioned in the Xen Day post, Xen.org was offered a slot at the Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. The Build a Cloud attendees were great. They were very engaged and asked lots of questions. The questions gave me a chance to cover several Xen topics