I came across a list of packages that are required to compile the latest version of Xen; simply run this command: apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev gawk gettext python-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev mercurial git-core curl ncurses-dev bcc iasl libpci-dev ocaml Thanks to George Dunlap for this information. From Pasi – also check out
From Dave Scott: The third (final?) release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html The changes since the RC2 are: * it should now be possible to upgrade from previous RCs as
Take a 7 minute break and enjoy a true classic: Of course, if you can find a Xen connection, then the 7 minutes was worth your time.
As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
As part of the 2010 Annual Xen.org survey response, I intend to push out more developer related content to the community via this blog… From: Dave Scott Re: Compressing VM Exports by Default In XCP a VM “export” is a serialized VM, including metadata and usually raw disk blocks.
The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg
Next week I will be travelling in time to work 5 hours ahead of my usual Eastern Standard Time. During the next three weeks I will magically accomplish all my tasks 5 hours earlier than I normally do. Please keep this time travel in mind when contacting me over the
Portuguese: Ola, Sou Sergio, aluno da Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo – Brasil e estou participando GSoC (Google Summer of Code). Meu projeto é a integração do Xen Cloud Platform com o DRBD e o responsável é Dave Scott. Ao final do projeto, pretendemos ter uma forma simples
I am back from an all too short vacation with my family and will be catching up on the mailing list email sorting, answering everyone’s emails that came in during the last few days, as well as gathering and publishing Project Golden Ratio data for May 2010.
I am taking a few days off for a family trip and will be back doing all things Xen next Wed, June 2. There will be no community newsletter this week but I will work to ensure that all mailing list emails are tracked at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
The Open vSwitch team announced the availability of Open vSwitch 1.0.0. Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for VM environments that supports standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN,
For those of you who like to chat via IRC I would like to announce a new group: Freenode #xen-api. This group contains developers and people interested in the XAPI toolstack used in the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) project. There is also a dedicated group of Xen community members on