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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 New to Xen Guide Published – http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/15/new-to-xen-guide-complete/ Xen Events Xen [...]

Tag ‘4.0.1-rc4′ is now available at http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg. Please test!

As I stated last week (http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/05/new-to-xen-guide-review-cycle/) the New to Xen Guide is ready for publication to the general community. The final document is available at ... [More] http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/NewtoXenGuide.pdf.I will be posting this in the Xen.org Wiki as well as on the main Xen.org website. Finally, this is a living document and can be updated at any time, please [...] [Less]

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 ... [More] tunnels provide a similar, though more flexible solution. The wiki document at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Tunnelling proposes a [...] [Less]

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 Time next week.

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 [...]

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 XCP Community Meeting#2  - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings Xen.og Wiki Update Project –  New Wiki [...]

From xen-devel mailing list, an introduction and proposal from Daniel Kiper on his project (see email and community responses to proposal at http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg00410.html): This year I put an proposal ... [More] regarding migration from memory ballooning to memory hotplug in Xen to Google Summer of Code 2010 (it was one of my two proposals). It was accepted and [...] [Less]

As part of a larger project to revamp the entire Xen.org web infrastructure, I have created a new URL for the Xen.org Wiki -> http://wiki.xen.org. This old web address http://wiki.xensource.com is still working  however I have updated the Xen.org ... [More] website to start using the new wiki.xen.org URL. In the coming months, all Xen.org VMs will be [...] [Less]

I'm working on now is an automated test framework, which will measure the effectivenes of the scheduler. This is actually a bit trickier than one might expect. You can't simply run a workload by itself and measure its performance; for that use case ... [More] , you don't actually need a scheduler. You need to run each workload in competition with an array of other workloads, and at various levels of CPU "pressure". [Less]