Last week we finally crossed the last major remaining issues off the Xen 4.2 TODO list. This means that the release plan now looks like this: * 19 March — TODO list locked down * 2 April — Feature Freeze * 30 July — First release candidate WE ARE HERE * Weekly â€
Rather than write a long report about what was new and exciting at OSCON this year, I will keep the event report short. Just one word: OSCON is mainly a conference for charities, companies, government and any organization that want to get an overview of what happened in open source
We now have PCI passthrough support in QEMU upstream, this was one of the missing pieces needed to have a full featured QEMU device model. But there is still more work to do on it. Why do we use QEMU? We use QEMU in Xen to emulate a part of
All of this week Ian Jackson and myself have been have been attending DebConf12 in Managua, Nicaragua. This is the annual conference of the Debian Project, hosted this year by Universidad Centroamericana. There have already been several days of talks, including the traditional “Bits from… ” talks from the release teams,
A quick round-up of Xen events in June. We hope to meet you in person! XenSummit, August 27-28: Agenda is published I have just published the XenSummit event agenda. We will have 30 talks in two tracks this year. And the line-up this year looks fantastic! Check it out. Do
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
I wanted to thank everybody who submitted a proposal to speak for XenSummit. This year we had the most submissions we ever had. The XenSummit Program Management Committee, which is made up of * David Nalley (Cloudstack.org) * Donald D Dugger (Intel) * Ian Campbell (Citrix) * Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (Oracle) and * Lars
The Xen Security team recently disclosed a vulnerability, Xen Security Advisory 7 (CVE-2012-0217), which would allow guest administrators to escalate to hypervisor-level privileges. The impact is much wider than Xen; many other operating systems seem to have the same vulnerability, including NetBSD, FreeBSD, some versions of Microsoft Windows (including Windows
This is a guest blog post by Georg Dörn, a long-time system administrator and open source enthusiast. Georg founded his company its-doern in 2008, to develop solutions for customers entirely from open source software. The Setup On the right, you see the XEN-HA Cluster which is based on two
Just a quick reminder that, the CFP for XenSummit closes in a week and that all submissions must be received before midnight June 15, 2012 PDT. Suggested topics include: * Latest developments and features in Xen and related projects * Developments in upstream projects that impact the Xen community * Proposals on how
One of the goals for the 4.2 release is for xl to have feature parity with xm for the most important functions. But along the way, we’ve also been adding a number of improvements to the interface as well. One of the ways in which xl has changed
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. We introduced Documentation Days, because working on documentation in parallel with like minded-people, is just more fun than working alone! Everybody who can contribute