Roger Pau Monne

Roger Pau Monne
XEN PROJECT SHIPS VERSION 4.16 WITH FOCUS ON IMPROVED PERFORMANCE SECURITY AND HARDWARE SUPPORT
Dec 02 2021
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NEW VERSION INTRODUCES ARM VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE MONITOR COUNTERS AND BROADER X86 HARDWARE SUPPORT. COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, INCLUDING FUNCTIONAL SAFETY AND VIRTIO, CONTINUE TO PROGRESS. The Xen Project, an open source hypervisor hosted at the Linux Foundation, announced the release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.16, which introduces various features allowing for

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Improved Xen support in FreeBSD
Jan 21 2014
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As most FreeBSD users already know, FreeBSD 10 has just been released, and we expect this to be a very good release regarding Xen support. FreeBSD with Xen support includes many improvements, including several performance and stability enhancements that we expect will greatly please and interest users. With many bug

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Indirect descriptors for Xen PV disks
Aug 07 2013
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Some time ago Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (the Xen Linux maintainer) came up with a list of possible improvements to the Xen PV block protocol, which is used by Xen guests to reduce the overhead of emulated disks. This document is quite long, and the list of possible improvements is also

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Impressions of the CentOS Dojo Antwerp 2013
Apr 09 2013
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Yesterday was the CentOS Dojo Antwerp 2013, where I delivered a talk about tuning Xen for better performance. The event was very interesting, lots of talks specially oriented at system administrators, so the Xen.org team didn’t want to miss this great opportunity to speak about Xen, especially

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Alpine Linux and Xen
Mar 04 2013
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I’ve started working on Alpine Linux and Xen integration some time ago, when I was working as a research assistant at UPC, my college. We had just bought some blades and we needed to deploy Xen on them easily. We realized this blades contained a SD and USB slot,

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Improving block protocol scalability with persistent grants
Nov 23 2012
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The blkback/blkfront drivers developed by the original Xen team was lightweight and fast zero-copy protocol that has served well for many years. However, as the number of physical cores and the number of guests have increased on systems, we have begun to identify some bottlenecks to scalability. This prompted

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