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New Xen Virtualization VGA Passthrough Movies of 3D Gaming Benchmark Results
Thanks again to Mr. Teo En Ming for these videos: Part 1 Part 2
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debugging on xen
Xen greatly facilitates debugging of OS kernels and modules by allowing source level debug. Allow me to introduce debuggers I wrote up late 2007, mostly from scratch, for xen. The first is gdbsx which was just recently merged into xen unstable branch. The second is kdb, whose primary goal is
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Xen 3.4.2 Release Candidate Available
The first release candidate for Xen 3.4.2 is available: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tagged 3.4.2-rc1) Please test!
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The Book of Xen - A Practical Guide for the System Administrator
Here are more details on the new Xen book from No Starch Press by by Chris Takemura and Luke S. Crawford. Full Book Promotional Page – Here Read a Sample from the Book – Chapter 7 From Book Promotional Page -> Xen, the open source virtualization tool, is a system administrator’
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Xen Memory Management Overview Presentation
I was able to get a presentation that Tim Deegan gave earlier this year on Xen Memory Management: Xen Memory Management View more documents from Stephen Spector.
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New Hosted Xen Release Available
The HXEN development team has released a new version of the solution for the 32-bit windows platform. You can obtain the source code and binary distribution at http://www.xen.org/products/projects.html. The 64-bit version is close to being release but there are some compiler issues that
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Xen.org and the Saga of the PVOps Dom0 Kernel
A new legend is growing within the Xen.org community on the PVOps Dom0 Kernel and its current mysterious status. In fact, this kernel is becoming so famous that I receive emails weekly from the community to learn more about its whereabouts. So what is the story? The short answer
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Xen Orchestra Project
I wanted to promote a Xen management solution that I have recently become aware of – Xen Orchestra Project. The main project site is at http://project.xen-orchestra.com/ with the project being led by Olivier Lambert and Julien Fontanet. I encourage everyone to take a look and feel free to
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Cloud Xen Project Update
Xen Community: Since the announcement a few weeks back from Xen.org on the creation of a new project, Xen Cloud Project or as I call it Cloud Xen, there have been some happenings in the background that I want to make everyone aware of. 1. Meetings – There are two
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Submitting Patches to Xen.org Community
The Xen.org community has published an updated Wiki page with all you need to know about creating and submitting patches: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/SubmittingXenPatches Also, there has been some discussion in xen-devel lately about some patches not being commented on or accepted by the tree maintainer. Here
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Xen LiveCD 2.0
I recently had a need to run the Xen hypervisor on my laptop but didn’t need a complete installation as I only had a one-off project – So, I tested out the Xen LiveCD 2.0 project currently available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD. I did the following
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Xen ARM Project - Did you know about this?
The Xen.org community is currently working on several projects that don’t receive much attention but are critical to the overall success of the Xen hypervisor solution. For example, the Xen ARM project being led by Samsung continues to develop a Xen hypervisor solution for the ARM 9 processor