Ian Pratt recently was on stage during the keynote sessions at Citrix Synergy showing the current implementation of the Type 1 Xen client hypervisor running on a PC and Mac. He did the demonstrations with Patrick Gelsinger from Intel. The complete 45 minute Intel presentation is at http://www.citrix.
From xen-devel mailing list and Sang-bum from Samsung (http://markmail.org/thread/q5h6hpoplfwf6xjs): I am happy to announce that I have updated source codes for the XenARM project. Sorry for the delay, behind the release plan that I presented at Xen Summit Japan November 2008. Please have a look at
Community: I have started working on a draft of the document and wanted to share it with everyone for immediate feedback. Is this what you were thinking of? If not, let me know. It took all afternoon to put this together and I want to see if the community wants
I was just pointed to a new open community Q&A system for programmers – Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/. There is a xen tag and virtualization tag already in place so if you ask any Xen questions, please use the appropriate tags. Sample Q&A – http://stackoverflow.
Xen Community: The Xen.org community is currently very active in the use of mailing lists for communication amongst developers, users, testers, etc. I have created a searchable repository of all emails sent via the MarkMail system at xen.markmail.org for everyone to leverage when looking for specific information.
The third release candidate for Xen 3.4.0 is available at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg, tagged as ‘3.4.0-rc3’. Please test! Hopefully we are close to final release now.
Xen Community: The next XCI project meeting is tomorrow at 1:30 pm EST. I will be taking minutes of this meeting and posting at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor. Agenda * Experiences with the http://xenbits.xen.org/xenclient build * PV USB implementations and API * Open
Continuing my testing of the new HXEN project… The current version of HXEN is focused on bringing up Windows guests (Vista & Windows 7); however, I wanted to see what happens if I bring up Linux guests. If anyone is also running Linux guests, I would like to get your
With Xen 3.4 in test for final release shortly, it is time to submit your feature requests for the next release, Xen 4.0. The current product roadmap is at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html and will be updated with the new features you submit once Xen
Patrick Colp at the recent Xen Summit at Oracle described his project and has announced the release of the source code. From his email: I’ve been working on VM snapshots/CoW for Xen (as seen at Xen Summit this year). I’m happy to release my first version. There
The second release candidate for Xen 3.4.0 is available at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg, tagged as ‘3.4.0-rc2’. Please test!
For those of you who have not tried the new HXEN – Hosted Xen project, I want to go through some of the issues I had installing and running the hypervisor on my Windows XP Tablet machine. STEPS: *** Make sure that your machine has Virtualization hardware enabled (E.g. Intel VT-d)