“Time-sharing” CPUs and I/O devices between VMs is a must in any virtualization system. Time-sharing memory is a harder problem. Ballooning is cool and used in every major virtualization system, but digging deep, it has a lot of issues. As a result, memory is becoming a bottleneck in many
In past editions of Xen, a Demo CD was created that allowed users to try Xen without having to do an install; e.g. http://www.xen.org/download/dl_303cd.html. There have been no new creations of this Xen Demo CD since this release. I have received several
Two new Xen maintenance releases are now available: Xen 3.3.1 and Xen 3.2.3 Enjoy!
For those of you curious about the Xen Document project, you can see the latest at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. All documentation requests are posted on the site along with people who are working on the updates and status of those changes. Please contact me if you
Hi all, Together with some other coworkers we have been working on a reference implementation of the security through isolation concept using virtualization. This project is using Xen to provide a contained virtualized environment where malware can run without affecting the whole system. The goal for this project is to
I have added 2 new projects to the community projects page: * Eucalyptus Project – (Contact: Rich Wolski) * Definition: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. * Links: Project Home Page * OpenNebula.org Project – (Contact: Ruben Santiago Montero)
Three new Xen related projects from the University of British Columbia are now listed on the Xen.org community projects page at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html. The projects are: * SecondSite Project – http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/secondsite/ * Parallax Project – http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/parallax/ * MPI-SCTP Project
Xen Community: I have updated the Xen User.tex file to reflect the current release; Xen 3.3 but cannot get the Table of Contents to load properly in the final pdf verison of the file. If you pull down the latest build you will see most recent document which
A new Xen project was added to the Community Page – VHPCE. Project Site: http://vcluster.sourceforge.net/ Project Contact: Xin Jun (xinjun933@gmail.com) Project Description:   The VHPCE core concept and component is virtual cluster, the management unit is virtual cluster or virtual node instead of
Xen Community: I have been working on the new Xen Roadmap Document and almost have it complete. I would like to get feedback from the community on the current version of the document. Please let me know if we need to add more sections, update existing sections, remove sections, etc.
I have updated the Xen Wiki section for “Who is Doing What”. The page is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/WhosDoingWhat. Please check the content to either add a new section with your name, update the current information with email links, or add details on the particular feature you
Yoshiaki Tamura released Kemari – an open source Xen Fault Tolerance mechanism – in the version 1.0. He presented Kemari both at the Xen Summits 2008 in Boston and Tokyo where he caught lots of attention by showing the “survival” of a virtual machine even if the hardware of one cluster