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I’m currently writing a new scheduler, credit2, which I mean to be the general-purpose scheduler for the next generation of Xen, lasting at least several years before needing a significant overhaul. But there are some problems with writing a scheduler: * They’re used in every workload that uses a
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For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting – the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit the wiki page to ensure that all the major issues are addressed.
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Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US EST Location: IRC #xen-api on Freenode Dial-In: 1.888.371.8921 Code: 275279 International Toll
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I came across a list of packages that are required to compile the latest version of Xen; simply run this command: apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev gawk gettext python-dev libssl-dev libx11-dev mercurial git-core curl ncurses-dev bcc iasl libpci-dev ocaml Thanks to George Dunlap for this information. From Pasi – also check out
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As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
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From Dave Scott: The third (final?) release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html The changes since the RC2 are: * it should now be possible to upgrade from previous RCs as
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On July 7, 2010 the Xen.org community will be hosting the 2nd Xen Community Meeting to discuss XCP development issues. This meeting will be the follow-up to meeting #1 <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings>. Details follow: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 13:00
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As part of the new emphasis on exposing developer activities to the broader community, I plan to highlight a few xen-devel discussions every week on this blog to allow the community a better view of developer interaction. If you have any thoughts on this new activity please let me know.
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As part of the 2010 Annual Xen.org survey response, I intend to push out more developer related content to the community via this blog… From: Dave Scott Re: Compressing VM Exports by Default In XCP a VM “export” is a serialized VM, including metadata and usually raw disk blocks.
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It is time to start thinking about our 2nd XCP meeting for the Xen.org XCP team. The last meeting was held on May 25, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. Notes are at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. For the next meeting I
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The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg
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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 * Xen.org Annual Community Survey Completed – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/ * Xen