As usual, Fedora has planned a number of test days for their upcoming Fedora 18 release, including include a Virtualization Test Day on November 1st (tomorrow!). We are therefore calling all our community members to participate in the test day as much as possible. Specific information regarding testing Xen on
A few weeks ago, we launched our first XCP User Survey. We nearly had 500 responses when I compiled a preliminary analysis of the survey results. First, I wanted to thank everybody who participated. Of all respondents 38% of respondents are using XCP today, 40% are evaluating XCP or planning
At XenSummit 2012 in San Diego, Mukesh Rathor from Oracle presented his work on a new virtualization mode, called “PVH”. Adding this mode, there are now a rather dizzying array of different terms thrown about — “HVM”, “PV”, “PVHVM”, “PVH” — what do they all mean? And why do we have so
One of the issues in any software project can be the disconnect between what users want or would find useful, and the developers’ idea of what users want or would find useful, and Xen is no exception. To help address this issue, we are starting to experiment with a website
Last weekend Linus Torvalds pulled the Xen on ARM patches in his Linux tree, so as of Saturday the 7th of October, we have Xen ARM in upstream Linux! This makes Xen the first hypervisor supported by Linux on the ARM platform! Working on ARM has been a very pleasant
Xen.org is happy to announce that XCP 1.6 Beta is available! The release is available from the download page: * XCP 1.6 Beta: Download (Xapi source) This release supersedes the XCP 1.5 beta release. A few months ago, the XCP team decided to concentrate their efforts on
Figuring out “what’s going on?” is always something very important. For example, knowing what processes were running on which processors can be very useful if you are doing OS development and/or performances evaluation. If applied to virtualization, that turns into figuring out what VMs were running on which
This is the second blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week I will be covering seemingly unrelated topics – but you will realize they are not unrelated: * The new PV in an HVM container virtualization mode (or PVH) proposed and developed by Mukesh Rathor, Oracle:
We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! For a list of items that need work, check out the community maintained TODO
Xen.org is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2.0. The release is available from the download page: * Xen Hypervisor 4.2.0: Download (archives), Source (tag RELEASE-4.2.0) This release is the culmination of 18 months and almost 2900 commits and almost 300K lines of
This will be the first blog post in a series pointing you to noteworthy XenSummit presentations. This week we will cover project roadmap and futures presentations. Note that you can download all presentations in a zip file. Sexy World of the Linux pvops project Also see: * Presentation Xen Cloud Platform
Xen has always supported a wide variety of operating systems as guests while the host-side has always been less bright. Infact, at the moment, most of the host choice is basically around Linux or NetBSD. Seemingly, a renewed interest into improving the FreeBSD support for XEN may drastically change the