Xen Project (Hypervisor)

Ian Campbell has proposed the following in xen-devel at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01457.html: Currently the configuration syntax available in a domain configuration has several ways of specifying devices, some of ... [More] which have slightly unexpected semantics wrt whether or not an emulated device is created, what the major number in xenstore is etc. Some also expose details of the guest [...] [Less]

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 get a new pdf created. Please [...]

A few weeks back, Ian Campbell and Stefano Stabellini proposed that some files in the Xen.org community have their license changed: The Xen source base includes two low level libraries (libxenctrl.so  and libxenguest.so) which provide low level ... [More] services to toolstacks and  other components of the Xen system. These two libraries are currently licensed under the umbrella of [...] [Less]

I recently received a new laptop from Citrix as my old laptop was very suspect (as those of you at Xen Summit at AMD are aware) and took some time today to install the XenClient product. XenClient is the client hypervisor built within Xen.org with some management features from Citrix that make it easy to [...]

I received this note from our friends at OpenNebula and thought I would post to a wider audience: Dear OpenNebula Community, As many of you know, a new open-source cloud platform, OpenStack, was recently announced. Here at OpenNebula, we think this ... [More] is a very exciting development in the cloud community, and we’re glad to see so many major players coalescing [...] [Less]

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 weekly emails and categorizing them [...]

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 ... [More] raised by virtualization and the opportunities for increased security presented by virtualization. We [...] [Less]

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 just there should they need [...]

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. Race condition in /etc/xen/scripts/block - Bastian de [...]

As I stated in a previous blog posting about the 2010 Annual Community Survey (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/), here are the planned responses to the survey results: Documentation Wiki ... [More] Organization & Links from xen.org/support to wiki : TASK COMPLETE (see http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/05/xen-org-wiki-update-project-complete/) Creation of “New To Xen Guide”: TASK COMPLETE (see http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/15/new-to-xen-guide-complete/) Developer Support Improved developer promotion including more technical discussions on new [...] [Less]