I have added a new CLOUD project to the Xen.org community project page called AppScale from the University of California at Santa Barbara. From Professor Chandra Krintz: In the spirit of Eucalyptus (also from UCSB), we’ve implemented a cloud fabric (Platform-as-a-service) that emulates the Google App Engine cloud.
I have updated the Xen Users Commonly Asked Questions Guide with some November questions that appeared in xen-users. The current document is available here. If you are interested in seeing the complete list of xen-users questions in November, feel free to check the weekly Xen.org community summary at http:
From Keir in xen-devel: Lots of new features have recently made it into the xen-unstable tree, and I think now is the time to declare a freeze so that we can get 4.0 out the door early in the New Year. If you’re sitting on any feature patches,
We are very pleased to announce immediate availability of ConVirt 2.0 Beta! Built on a brand new, 3-tier, repository-based architecture, ConVirt 2.0 incorporates many of our users’ most wanted and anticipated features. For more information, please visit us at http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-2-0-beta-now-available/
I have added a new project to the community projects page on xen.org at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html. The great work from Teo En Ming is now easily found by people looking for interesting Xen related projects. The home page of this new project is at
From Virtualization.info… In late November the FreeBSD team released FreeBSD 8.0. It finally introduces the experimental support for the Xen domU. This means that FreeBSD 8.0 can run as a (32bit only) Xen guest operating system. FreeBDS 8.0 also introduce a new experimental feature called â€
From Mr. Teo En Ming who is doing great Xen work… I have integrated the open source Xen hypervisor 3.4.3 RC1-pre and Jeremy Fitzhardinge’s pv-ops dom0-patched kernel 2.6.31.6 into my 64-bit build of ChromiumOS. With the integrated Xen virtualization support, you can now create
At Xen Summit Asia, Seehwan Yoo from Korea University presented an update to the Chuck Yoo presentation from Xen Summit at Oracle in Feb 2009. In this new presentation, Seehwan details the issues around running real-time applications in a virtual environment and presents the algorithm developed at Korea University to
At Xen Summit Asia 2009 Keir Fraser presented the latest on the Xen 4.0 release. The complete presentation is here. For those of you looking for the quick highlights, here you are: * Release Date: Expected release in early Q1 2010 (January/February) * Significant Features * Dom0 Kernal – PVOps (more info
Xen Orchestra 0.7 is now available at http://xen-orchestra.com/?p=138 . The new project is an entire code rewrite based on community feedback and the interface is web 2.0. If you are interested in being a beta tester or evaluating this solution with your hardware please
Xen Community: At the recent Xen Summit Asia event Noboru Iwamatsu from Fujitsu listed a collection of USB devices that he has tested with Xen for USB Pasthru. To assist everyone in the community in finding previously tested devices, I have created a new page on the Xen.org Wiki
There is an article on Slasdot on the Project Remus – Xen announcement with an interesting discussion in the comments field; enjoy at http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/11/2246226/Remus-Project-Brings-Transparent-High-Availability-To-Xen.