Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Community Member Spotlight Dulloor Rao – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/09/community-member-spotlight-dulloor-rao/ * Virtualization and over-subscription:
From Ian Campbell – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00728.html The last in-tree user of the xc_ptrace functionality was removed in changeset:Â Â 21732:eb34666befcc user:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> date:Â Â
From Stefano Stabellini – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00649.html this is the long awaited patch series to add xen device model support in qemu; the main author is Anthony Perard. Developing this series we tried to come up with the cleanest possible solution from the qemu
From George Dunlap – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00673.html At the moment, the “weight” parameter for a VM is set on a per-VM basis. This means that when cpu time is scarce, two VMs with the same weight will be given the same amount of
The sixth release candidate for 4.0.1 is tagged as 4.0.1-rc6 at http://xenbits.xen.org/staging/xen-4.0-testing.hg We expect this to be the final RC, with no changes except for regression fixes ahead of final release late next week. So please test this RC!
From Dave Scott – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-08/msg00031.html I’ve written a proposal on the wiki for “Cross-host VDI.copy” i.e. the ability to copy VDIs (disks) and therefore VMs between storage repositories on separate XCP hosts: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Cross-host_VDI.
Full RFC Patch - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00359.html It is libxl policy to return objects to callers which the caller must free. It therefore a matter of correctness for libxl to only free it's internal scratch allocations and never to free things
To help the community get a better idea of the developer interactions, I am highlighting two xen-devel discussions a week on this blog. * PV console for HVM domains – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00283.html Owen Smith submits a patch that “creates a shared memory ring buffer
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Oracle VM Demo – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/02/really-cool-animated-demo-of-oracle-vm/ * Why Xen? White Paper – https:
From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in after a fresh install. This is useful in case you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch,
From Konrad Wilk on xen-devel: This patch set contains the groundwork and the driver itself for Xen Paravirtualized (PV) domains to use PCI pass-through devices. These patches utilize the Xen-SWIOTLB library (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/27/246) and I don't expect them to get in the
I received an email from Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez who created OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager and is now working on OpenXenWebManager. Info to access the tool is: steps to test are: download from http://bit.ly/bres2U uncompress: tar xvfz xenwebmanager_rev24_full.tar.gz cd xenwebmanager python frontend.py and with