Xen Project (Hypervisor)

Jeremy  Fitzhardinge has recently pulled in a bunch of Oracle patches that make Linux now work quite well with Xorg/KMS/3D. So with the latest xen/stable-2.6.32.x you can now play OpenArena (Quake clone) under your Dom0 (and you could do theoretically that under DomU, but it hasn’t been tried). Under the PV-OPS kernel and with Xorg [...]

I am pleased to introduce the Program Committee for Xen Summit Asia at Samsung: Patrick Colp Ian Pratt Sang-bum Suh Pradeep Padala Chuck Yoo Todd Deshane Jun Nakajima Eddie Dong Dan Magenheimer Hitoshi Matsumoto I look forward to a great event this November in Seoul, Korea. I will be posting info on submitting topics later [...]

[PATCH] Remus breaks the build – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00696.html Jeremy Fitzhardinge submitted a patch to fix a compile issue caused by Remus… “Remus tries to go out of the tools directory and build in the ... [More] kernel directory. This assumes that we’re actually building a kernel out of the xen build tree, and that kernel is actually being [...] [Less]

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 – ... [More] http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/08/09/community-member-spotlight-dulloor-rao/ Virtualization and over-subscription: breaking the 100% utilization barrier- http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/08/11/virtualization-and-over-subscription-breaking-the-100-utilization-barrier/ Why Xen? White Paper - http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/30/why-xen-paper-published/ Why [...] [Less]

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:   21732:eb34666befcc user:        Ian Jackson date:        Fri Jul 02 ... [More] 17:46:01 2010 +0100 files:       [...] description: tools/debugger/gdb: Remove gdb This code is not maintained, does not work properly, and no-one is using it.  Delete it, following discussion on xen-devel. [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] come up with the cleanest possible solution from the qemu point of view, limiting the amount of changes to common code as much [...] [Less]

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 total cpu time, no matter how many vcpus it has.  I.e., if a VM [...]

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 ... [More] XCP hosts: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Cross-host_VDI.copy Currently XCP only supports copying disks between Storage Repositories where at least one host in the pool can see both bits of [...] [Less]

Some pictures of the event with Jeremy Fitzhardinge – http://www.flickr.com/photos/35753147@N03/sets/72157624691411760/with/4877667436/.