I’d like to introduce you to Thomas Goirand, who has volunteered to help us package the XenAPI toolstack for Debian as part of the Kronos project. Thomas is a Debian package maintainer and CEO of GPLHost. Thomas attended DebConf in Bosnia two weeks ago, where he did a great
The XCP team would like to formally announce Project Kronos, our port of XCP’s XenAPI toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu dom0. This will give users the ability to install Debian or Ubuntu, and then just do ‘apt-get install xapi’ in order to build a system that is (roughly) functionally
The XCP project team would like to let you know that we have released XCP 1.1 beta today. While this is only a minor version bump from XCP 1.0, there are quite a few new features included with this release: * Security updates and bug fixes * IntelliCache: Enables you
My name is Mike McClurg, and I am a Citrix developer working on the Xen API (xapi) and the Xen Cloud Platform. I have recently been chosen as the new lead for the XCP project, and there are a few exciting new developments that I’d like to share with
There will be another Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) call this week on Thursday, October 14th. We’ll post an agenda and some slides before the meeting happens. If there is anything anybody particularly wants to discuss, please get in touch! Call details below: Meeting Date: Â October 14, 2010 Time:
As far as I can see, the “xe” command in XCP and XenServer is missing the options to implement the underlying VM.get_tags, VM.set_tags, VM.add_tags and VM.remove_tags Xen API calls to manipulate tags associated with VMs. Am I missing something, or is there
I received an email from Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez who created OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager and is now working on OpenXenWebManager. Info to access the tool is: steps to test are: download from http://bit.ly/bres2U uncompress: tar xvfz xenwebmanager_rev24_full.tar.gz cd xenwebmanager python frontend.py and with
From Rob Hoes: To isolate network traffic between VMs (e.g. for security reasons) one can use VLANs. The number of possible VLANs on a network, however, is limited, and setting up a VLAN requires configuring the physical switches in the network. GRE tunnels provide a similar, though more flexible
We’re pleased to announce the release of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5, a complete open-source cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management toolstack based on open APIs, support for multi-tenancy, QoS and detailed metrics for consumption based charging. The XCP 0.5 bits have been tested extensively
For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting – the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit the wiki page to ensure that all the major issues are addressed.
Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US EST Location: IRC #xen-api on Freenode Dial-In: 1.888.371.8921 Code: 275279 International Toll
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