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Here are some highlights of Keir Fraser’s presentation at Xen Summit: * Current Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.1 and Xen 3.2.3 (Jan 09) * Next Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.2 and Xen 3.4.0 (late March 09) Xen Development Process Update – * Use xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
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From Ian Pratt’s presentation at Xen Summit;Â here are some highlights: * Xen Embedded – small footprint Xen (see xenbits.xen.org/xenclient) * Xen Client – Citrix code being placed in Xen-unstable * Hosted Xen – Xen engine run as a kernel module to enable hosted (type-2) VMM; Windows and OSX in active
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I have spoken with several community members today at Xen Summit and they have great project ideas for Xen but not enough time to work on them. I am also aware that many university students are looking for research projects for their masters or phd work and would like to
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From Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro in Xen-Devel (http://markmail.org/thread/2t2cbfjkxz6awnzu): I’m happy to announce everyone that is available a newer version of the Xen Live CD, the version 2.0. It’s entirely based on latest version of the stable Debian, the recently released 5.0. The
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From Simon Crosby’s Citrix blog posting We’ve Open Sourced Our Optimized VHD Support: Today Dutch Meyer of UBC, and Jake Wires of the Citrix XenServer storage team in Vancouver submitted our implementation of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in
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From Jeremy Fitzhardinge in xen-devel: http://markmail.org/thread/tww7aqawwn4r4fnk Over the last week I’ve been migrating the Xen paravirt_ops tree from a Mercurial patch-queue based model to a git tree. This makes it easier for me to work with the various Linux kernel subsystem maintainers in
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From Tej Bewith on xen-devel: gcov is a test coverage program. generally used with GCC to analyze programs to help create more efficient, faster running code and to discover untested parts of your program. Software developers also use coverage testing in concert with testsuites, to make sure software is
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Ke Yu from Intel has created a new Power Management Wiki Page with details on the ongoing development work – http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/xenpm.
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I am launching a new format to the Xen Community Weekly today and have a few questions for the community: 1) Do you want to have a complete list of patches released during the week in this document? 2) What type of information from xen-users would people like to see
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From xen-devel… I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Xen ocaml tools repository. This contains for now, a fully rewritten version of xenstored, which should be better than the C version available in the xen repository. = License This is part of an effort to try to opensource some
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I have added information and a link to a new project on the Xen.org Project Page: Isolated Execution; project home page is http://isolated-exec.sourceforge.net/. For more information on this project, see https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/12/12/security-through-isolation-in-xen/
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Xen Community, We currently have a Japanese language mailing list that is showing good activity within the Japanese speaking part of our community. As such, I wanted to offer this feature to any other community members looking to speak with other members in their own language. If you have an