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My first Xen Developer Summit: expectations vs reality
Last week I was in Edinburgh to attend my first Xen Project Developer Summit. It turned out quite different from my expectations, so I thought I’d share a bit about my experience. When I first saw the call for participation I wasn’t sure that I had anything sufficiently
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Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Releases
Cambridge, UK 11/27/2012 – Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 (or short XCP), an industry-leading virtualization platform for companies to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds. XCP 1.6 strengthens its server
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Xen 4.2 Releases
Cambridge, UK 8/9/2012 – Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.2, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective effort of a global development team representing many leading technology vendors, universities, and virtualization experts.
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Archived Xen.org Press Releases
Older Xen.org Press Releases can be found at www-archive.xenproject.org Go to Archive …
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Linux PV Guest Performance Improvements
The Xen community achieved a major milestone last summer when all the necessary components for Xen dom0 support made it into the upstream kernel for the 3.0 release. However, during that process developers were focused on functionality, and not on performance. As a result a handful of performance regressions
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Dom0 Memory -- Where It Has Not Gone
If you are upgrading domain 0 Linux kernel from a non-pvops (classic, 2.6.18/2.6.32/etc.) kernel to a pvops one (3.0 or later), you may find that the amount of free memory inside dom0 has decreased significantly. This is because of changes in the
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Improving the Project Kronos pages
We had a look at the documentation for Project Kronos, and decided that it needed some significant improvement, so there’s been a good deal of rewriting and restructuring. You’ll now find a Project Kronos main page, with an introduction to the project, and a set of pages linked
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Letting the community know about Kronos
Now that we’ve got a page with instructions for Kronos on Oneiric (XAPI on Ubuntu), I was wondering about ways to let the community know that things are progressing. I’ve started with the simple step of adding some detail to the Xen page on the Ubuntu Community Documentation
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Kronos on Ubuntu - a nearly-n00b's guide
As a long-term Ubuntu (and, before that, Debian) user, I wanted to try Kronos to see how easy it was to get Xen running on a standard Oneiric box for someone who didn’t have – and didn’t want – the detailed knowledge of the guts of the thing. Working with