As I mentioned a few weeks back, Project ThreeEyes is the new effort to completely revamp the existing Xen.org website. I have opened the process up for web development companies to bid on and have received the first bid from Accelerator Enterprise Technologies. Here are the main highlights of
As part of the new Why Xen? document series, I am announcing the Why Xen? brochure for community use: here. Also available are the following: * White Paper -Â http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhyXen.pdf * Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/why-xen-slides As is standard, if you
From Oracle comes an excellent site with good information on virtualization, Xen, and Oracle VM. The site is http://itnewscast.com/underground-oracle-vm-manual.
Only 2 more weeks until Xen Directions South America at LinuxCon Brazil in Sao Paulo. Speakers include: * Ian Pratt * Marco Sinhoreli * George Dunlap * Liberie Cunha-Neto * Rogerio Ferreira * Antonio Pina * Gunther Boeckmann * Thiago Cordeiro * Emanuel dos Reis Rodrigues * Boris Quiroz * Fabio King * Heitor Medrado de Faria * and me. I look forward
From Ian Campbell – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset:Â Â 21732:eb34666befcc user:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> date:Â Â
From Stefano Stabellini – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is Anthony Perard. Developing this series we tried to come up with the cleanest possible solution from the qemu
From George Dunlap – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00673.html At the moment, the “weight” parameter for a VM is set on a per-VM basis. This means that when cpu time is scarce, two VMs with the same weight will be given the same amount of
From Dave Scott – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-08/msg00031.html I’ve written a proposal on the wiki for “Cross-host VDI.copy” i.e. the ability to copy VDIs (disks) and therefore VMs between storage repositories on separate XCP hosts: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Cross-host_VDI.
On Sunday 8/8 the Xen Community lost one of its pioneers and staunch supporters, Alex Vasilevsky, to Cancer.  Alex was founder of Virtual Iron, which started out with a proprietary hypervisor and switched to using Xen in its later product releases.   When Virtual Iron
To help the community get a better idea of the developer interactions, I am highlighting two xen-devel discussions a week on this blog. * PV console for HVM domains – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00283.html Owen Smith submits a patch that “creates a shared memory ring buffer
From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in after a fresh install. This is useful in case you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch,
From Konrad Wilk on xen-devel: This patch set contains the groundwork and the driver itself for Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the Xen-SWIOTLB library (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/27/246) and I don't expect them to get in the