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The new website is live; please send me any problems you find so I can make fixes. Current Issues: 1) The Wiki did not transfer over to the new look & feel – not sure why but looking into it 2) The Mailing Lists registration page for a new user has
Project Snowflock is now available to the general public. We’re making a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock. Briefly, Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different
The Xen.org community will again be running a full day training session at an upcoming USENIX Event – LISA ’08. For those of you going to event or looking for a hands on approach to Xen training, the community will be hosting the following training session on Monday November 10th
Next week I will be part of a panel on virtualization at an HP event in NY for financial CIOs. The panel is focused on these topics about open source software and virtualization, listed below. If you have any thoughts that you would like expressed by me at this
To Xen customers: If you are using Xen, either as a direct download from the Xen.org site or from a partner who is leveraging Xen as their virtualization engine (e.g. Oracle, RedHat, Novell, Sun, etc) they I am looking for you. The Xen development community is actively looking
Ian Pratt and I were discussing the fact that open source Xen has no “mascot” like other open source projects and we joked about some possibilities (see my list below). I am curious to see what ideas the community has for a “mascot”. NOTE – this is just for fun and
The Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) registration system is now active at https://www.regonline.com/xsasia08. For people who speak Japanese, please visit this site to assist with registration: http://xen.org/xensummit/How_to_register_Japanese.html. If you have any problems with the registration system, please contact me.
For those of you interested in the next release of Xen, a new list of features is being compiled at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html. If you have any ideas you would like added, please email myself or xen-devel so the information can be added to this roadmap
The official Xen.org Press Release announcing Xen 3.3 has been posted here. There are many partner quotes in the release from Oracle, Novell, Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, Fujitsu, Samsung, Neocleus, Citrix, SignaCert, etc and I encourage everyone in the community to take a look. I just got a
From Samuel Thibault: When having a look at how much CPU time is used when an HVM guest is idle, one can notice that the ioemu process used to permanently take something like 7%. This is because ioemu used to keep checking the content of the HVM video RAM for
From Samuel Thibault: The traditional way to configure a PV guest is to write in the configuration file the path to the kernel/initrd to be loaded. However, logically enough, these should be on the PV guest disk image, to allow them to be managed by the distribution installed
From Samuel Thibault: To provide HVM domains with virtual hardware, Xen uses a modified version of qemu, ioemu. It used to run in dom0 as a root process, since it needs to directly access disks and tap network. That poses both a problem of security, as the qemu