For those of you looking for more assistance with a particular Domain0 or DomainU guest operating system, I have created a new document that lists the OS and links to support sites. I have also added a new link on the Xen.org Support pages to the Pre-Built DomU sites
There has been a great deal of developer discussion lately around the proposed patches to extend the Linux kernel’s existing Xen support to include control domain capabilities (loosely known as “the dom0 patches”). These discussions are generating a great deal of interest in Xen and Linux so I thought
From Keir on xen-devel: The first release candidate for Xen 3.4.1 is tagged as 3.4.1-rc1 at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg Quite a few important fixes have been made since 3.4.0. Please test and let’s get this one out quickly!
With my current access to some of the Xen.org developers here in Cambridge, UK I am planning to do a series of short (10 minutes) video interviews to learn more about the people behind Xen. I am putting together a series of questions for these interviews and would like
The GlusterFS team is currently trying to understand more about GlusterFS deployments with Xen. We are looking at feedback from users of the same. We are interested in knowing the following: 1) How many servers (Real and Virtual) do you use in the deployment? 2) What versions of operating systems/
The Japanese software project Karesansui has released the first version of its open source software. The Web console allows management of virtual systems under Xen. Karesansui provides creation of virtual guests and starting, suspending and shutting down the VM. It also takes snapshots and assigns CPU and RAM resources. Rest
From xen-devel: I am pleased to announce the release of GUK (Project Guest VM Microkernel), which is an enhanced version of Mini-OS that underpins the Guest VM virtual machine. Guest VM is an implementation of the Java platform, written almost completely in Java, running directly on Xen. Although GUK was
From Keir in Xen-Devel: ‘3.3.2-rc1’ is now tagged in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg Please test!
The fist release of the xen-users commonly asked questions guide is now available on the Xen.org website at http://xen.org/files/Support/XenUsersCommonlyAskedQuestions.pdf. Of course, this is a document in continuous change so please send any updates to this blog post or to me for document update.
Thanks to Todd Deshane for linking me to Stacklet (http://stacklet.com), a repository for Xen DomU Images. The site currently has images for CentOS 5.3, Debian (Lenny), Fedora 10, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware, and Ubuntu 9.04. There is also a forum associated with the site if you
From Sang-bum at Samsung – I am happy to announce that a patch for a new emulator platform Goldfish (QEMU 0.82 based Android emulator) is released at wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenARM.
Xen Community: The project formerely known as KXEN is now called HXEN (Hosted Xen). This project allows a user to run the Xen hypervisor as a Type 2 VMM instead of the usual Type 1 use of Xen. Project information and downloads are available at http://xen.org/community/projects.