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ACPI vs. Device Tree on ARM Some of you may have seen the recent discussions on the linux-arm-kernel mailing list (and others) about the use of ACPI vs DT on the ARM platform. As always LWN have a pretty good summary (currently subscribers only, becomes freely available on 5 December)
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The researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Pennsylvania are pleased to announce, here on this blog, the release of a new and greatly improved version of the RT-Xen project. Recent years have seen increasing demand for supporting real-time systems in virtualized environments (for example, the Xen-ARM
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With the release process for Xen 4.3 in full swing (we intend to release the third release candidate this week) and with the Xen Test Days initiative (the next one is this Wednesday 5 June, join us on IRC freenode #xentest) I thought it would be useful to offer
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What is Valgrind? Valgrind is a framework for building dynamic analysis tools. Several useful tools are included in the Valgrind distribution including tools to check dynamic memory usage (memcheck), a cache profiler (cachegrind), heap profiler (massif) and thread debugger (helgrind) among others. Valgrind also provides a framework which can be
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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
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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
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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
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Just a quick update on the Xen 4.2 release. 4.2.0-rc3 was released on 23 August and we intend to release rc4 around the end of the week. Barring any last minute critical bug reports our intention is that rc4 will be the final release candidate. * 19 March
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There’s been a lot of good progress in the Xen on ARM with virtualisation extensions port since I first blogged about it here. Thanks to some recent work, mainly by Stefano Stabellini, we are now able to start our first guest domain, including paravirtual console disk and network devices!
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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€
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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,
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Xen.org recently released a number of (related) security updates, XSA-7 through to -9. This was done by the Xen.org Security Team who are charged with following the Xen.org Security Problem Response Process. As part of the process of releasing XSA-7..9 several short-comings (a few of which