A few weeks ago, we introduced the Xen Project – OpenStack CI Loop, which is testing Nova commits against the Xen Project Hypervisor and Libvirt. Xen Project community is pleased to announce that we have moved from Quality Group C to B, as we’ve made significant progress in the
We recently introduced the new Xen Project Test Lab, a key piece of infrastructure to improve the quality of our code and code coverage. As stated earlier, “we are serious and proactive when it comes to minimising and, whenever possible, eliminating any adverse effects from defects, security vulnerabilities or
Recent Changes Let Xen Project Work Out of the Box in OpenStack Members of the Xen Project development team have always believed that the hypervisor must be available for integration into other Open Source projects. In particular, the initiators of the Xen Project envisioned the day when compute resources
By Xing Lin This document describes steps I took to setup a compute node based on Ubuntu 14.04 for OpenStack “juno”, using the Xen Project via libvirt approach. Openstack does not support this approach well as it is in Group C of the hypervisor support matrix for Openstack. You
The OpenStack community has recently released the Essex release, which supports XCP and XenServer. A number of vendors have worked at that support including Citrix, Internap and Rackspace Public Cloud. You can find some more information about Xen support in the OpenStack Essex release at this wiki page. If you
The OpenStack Conference is a nice change of pace from the design summit. The conference is more about announcements, Â case studies, and forward-looking discussion. There is plenty of coverage of these in the blogosphere. Ewan Mellor and I gave a talk that looked toward the future of the Xen
Every 6 months the OpenStack community gets together to discuss plans for the next release. Next week in Boston will be the Essex Design Summit and Conference. Myself and Ewan Mellor will be representing Xen.org. If you want to get together next week and discuss anything related to Xen,
Last week I was at the OpenStack Conference and Design summit: I thought I would share a quick report of what I found cool and interesting. Obviously this won’t be a complete picture and the report is my personal opinion. Before I do this though, I wanted to remind