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As far as I can see, the “xe” command in XCP and XenServer is missing the options to implement the underlying VM.get_tags, VM.set_tags, VM.add_tags and VM.remove_tags Xen API calls to manipulate tags associated with VMs. Am I missing something, or is there
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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
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Jeremy’s slides for his talk today are at https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaZM1oYivK60ZG50Y2s2eF8wYzlzZ2RiZzg&hl=en&authkey=CJqFi6oI.
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From Alessandro Perilli: http://cloudcomputing.info/en/news/2010/07/yahoo-to-move-to-xen-for-cloud-computing.html In a roundtable hosted by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that took place last month, the Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! Surendra Reddy revealed that the search giant is adopting the open source hypervisor Xen. The
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I have taken down the Xen Cloud Platform Administrative Guide from the Xen.org website for some maintenance. Several people have found some content that needed to be removed and I am having problems re-converting the updated XML file into pdf. The document will remain UNDER CONSTRUCTION until I can
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As I noted earlier this week, I did my Jury Service on Monday only to be selected for a trial this Friday. I anticipate being out all day Friday for the trial so I will not be sending out a weekly newsletter; however I have been keeping track of the
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Adventium Labs, a leading-edge, high technology research and development organization, has an opening for a research staff position in cyber security. Our particular interest is in someone who has expertise in virtualization, both the problems raised by virtualization and the opportunities for increased security presented by virtualization. We currently have
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This Monday, I will be taking part in that time honoured tradition in the United States of being a juror in our legal system. More info to those of you not familiar with this occasional requirement. I have no idea if I will be selected for a case or am
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From Rob Hoes: To isolate network traffic between VMs (e.g. for security reasons) one can use VLANs. The number of possible VLANs on a network, however, is limited, and setting up a VLAN requires configuring the physical switches in the network. GRE tunnels provide a similar, though more flexible
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I am returning to my usual time instead of existing 5 hours in the future. Based on Einstein’s theory, I suppose I have actually grown younger over these three weeks but I am not sure I can notice a 0.1 second slowdown. See you back in Eastern Standard
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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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We’re pleased to announce the release of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5, a complete open-source cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management toolstack based on open APIs, support for multi-tenancy, QoS and detailed metrics for consumption based charging. The XCP 0.5 bits have been tested extensively