Xen 3.4.0 Release Candidate Available
Apr
13
2009
From Keir… The first release candidate for Xen 3.4.0 is available at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg, tagged as ‘3.4.0-rc1’. Please test!
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Xen Client Initiative Project Meeting Scheduled
Apr
08
2009
Meeting Information – April 29, 2009 XCI Team – We are going to restart the meetings for this project… Agenda: * Experiences with the http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient build * PV USB implementations and API * Open Discussion I will be taking minutes on this meeting and posting at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
White Paper - Getting 10 Gb/s from Xen: Safe and Fast Device Access from Unprivileged Domains
Apr
07
2009
A whitepaper from Solarflare Communications, Inc. was sent to me by Simon Crosby for distribution to the Xen Community. The full paper is available here; getting_10gbps_from_xen Abstract The networking performance available to Virtual Machines (VMs) can be low due to the inefficiencies of transferring network packets between
Xen Goes Italian!
Apr
06
2009
Thanks to a community member in Italy who just made available the Xen Wiki in Italian as well as a new forum: Xen Italia – Wiki www.xen-it.org XEN Italia Forum http://forum.xen-it.org
Project Remus Released
Apr
02
2009
From xen-devel mailing list: I’m happy to finally release Remus into the wild: http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/remus/ Remus provides transparent, comprehensive high availability to ordinary virtual machines running on the Xen virtual machine monitor. It does this by maintaining a completely up-to-date copy of a running VM
Hosted Xen Project (HXen) Available
Apr
01
2009
The initial public release of the Hosted Xen project (HXen) is now available. HXen lets you run the Xen core as a Type-2 VMM, on top of a regular operating system. This release supports 32-bit Windows XP, Vista and Win7 as the host operating system. This release uses a snapshot
Status of XenFS
Mar
26
2009
When I checked back on this post something appeared to have broken; I’m blaming Firefox somehow playing badly with the WordPress web interface. Hopefully the problems are now fixed and the article will be visible. Sorry about that. Now and again, I get e-mails asking me about
Xen 3.4 Feature Request List
Mar
23
2009
As the community begins the work to close down Xen 3.4 and finalize testing, I would like to reach out to the developers who have written new features or improved existing services so I can get a complete feature update list and start working on creating short blog entries
Xen Summit Events - Open Discussion
Mar
19
2009
Xen Community: In the past, Xen.org would host a Xen Summit event every 9 months in North America alternating between the East Coast and West Coast of the United States. Last year, Xen.org held a very successful event in Tokyo at Fujitsu’s Labs and we are currently
Additional Links for Xen LiveCD Available
Mar
15
2009
I have added another set of links to the Xen LiveCD images. You can now download from the Worldweb Internet Hosting site or from the Xen.org website. Complete information on the LiveCD available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD. Once again, thanks to Thiago Martins for creating this
Hosted Xen Project
Mar
06
2009
Xen Community: At last week’s Xen Summit at Oracle, Ian Pratt announced a new project that is currently in active development, Hosted Xen. This project will enable the Xen engine to run as a kernel module enabling Xen to become a Type-2 Virtual Machine Manager sitting “on top”
Xen 3.3 a Finalist for 2009 CODIE Awards from SIIA
Mar
04
2009
Congrats to the Xen Community as the Xen 3.3 release was named a finalist in the 2009 CODIE awards in the Best Open Source Solution Category. A second round of judging will begin on March 16. Approximately 400+ SIIA members will begin voting on the finalists and are allowed