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This is a reprint of the following Linux.com article by Alex Agizim, VP, CTO Embedded Systems at GlobalLogic “Smart car†technology had a huge presence at CES 2015, from BMW’s 360-degree collision avoidance and parking assist features to Audi’s Human Machine Interface (HMI) that connects to
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And by “a ride”, we actually mean a ride. Like this:  Like, will Xen run in your car? Well, it appears it will! It all started with ARM Support In fact, Xen Project developers started woking on supporting the ARM architecture (with hardware virtualization capabilities) a couple of
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This week, we are reblogging this excellent piece from Luis from SUSE. The article came about because of a discussion Luis had at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Napa, and he decided to write down some basic generals of the xenstore, a review of its first implementation and a
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Today I’d like to talk about a functionality of Xen you may not have heard of, but might have actually used without even knowing it. If you use memory ballooning to resize your guests, you’ve likely used “populate-on-demand” at some point. As you may know, ballooning
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As usual, the first weekend of February (1st & 2nd Feb this year) is FOSDEM weekend. Taking place at “ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium, Europe, Earth”, FOSDEM is the Open Source event of the year. At least for Europe: the website claims that FOSDEM hosts 5,000+ geeks and hackers
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As most FreeBSD users already know, FreeBSD 10 has just been released, and we expect this to be a very good release regarding Xen support. FreeBSD with Xen support includes many improvements, including several performance and stability enhancements that we expect will greatly please and interest users. With many bug
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Going to FOSDEM’14? Well, you want to check out the schedule of the Virtualization & IaaS devroom then, and make sure you do not miss the talks about Xen. There are 4 of them, and they will provide some details about new and interesting usecases for virtualization, like in
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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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Yes, today (Tuesday, October 8th) is one of the Fedora 20 Test Days, more specifically, Virtualization Test Day. Specific information regarding testing Xen on the new Fedora can be found in this Wiki page. For attending and participating, join us now on IRC at #fedora-test-day (Freenode)! Fedora 20 will be
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Some time ago Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (the Xen Linux maintainer) came up with a list of possible improvements to the Xen PV block protocol, which is used by Xen guests to reduce the overhead of emulated disks. This document is quite long, and the list of possible improvements is also
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Fedora Logo Yes, apparently Schrödinger’s cat is alive, as the latest release of Fedora – Fedora 19, codename Schrödinger’s cat– as been released on July 2nd, and that even happened quite on time. So, apparently, putting the cat “in a box” and all the stuff
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As many of you might have (inevitably) noticed, Xen frontend / backend network drivers in Linux suffered from regression several months back after the XSA-39 fix (various reports here, here and here). Fortunately that’s now fixed (see the most important patch of that series) and the back-porting process to stable