Xen Project (XAPI)

I received an email from Andres Lagar-Cavilla about an interesting post from GridCentric, a virtualization startup. Something that we think about a lot at GridCentric is how to ensure that resources are used efficiently. In fact, that’s what led us to create Copper in the first place — seeing how difficult it was to share [...]

For those of you who did not see Jeremy Fitzhardinge’s presentation at Xen User Group in LA you now have a chance to see his slides which I have updated to be the new Why Xen? Slides for everyone to use. The slides are available at SlideShare Why xen slides View more presentations from Stephen [...]

On Sunday 8/8 the Xen Community lost one of its pioneers and staunch supporters, Alex Vasilevsky, to Cancer.   Alex was founder of Virtual Iron, which started out with a proprietary hypervisor and switched to using Xen in its later product releases.    When Virtual Iron was sold to Oracle (to become the core of what is [...]

I am proud to announce our latest Community Member Spotlight on Dulloor Rao at http://www.xen.org/community/members.html. Dulloor recently presented at the Xen Summit North America at AMD 2010 : Guest NUMA Support (PV) and (HVM) with Jun Nakajima (Slides & Video).

Full RFC Patch - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00359.html It is libxl policy to return objects to callers which the caller must free. It therefore a matter of correctness for libxl to only free it's internal scratch ... [More] allocations and never to free things which may be returned so as to avoid double-free error conditions. This patch (probably won't apply [...] [Less]

To help the community get a better idea of the developer interactions, I am highlighting two xen-devel discussions a week on this blog. PV console for HVM domains – http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-08/msg00283.html Owen Smith ... [More] submits a patch that “creates a shared memory ring buffer and event channel in HVM domains for passing debug messages from PV drivers [...] [Less]

The team in Brazil has not just created a new LIVE DVD for Xen, they have also created a new XCP CD to handout to interested people. The new label for this CD is: I anticipate getting about 500 copies of this CD after Xen Directions South America later this month and can send them [...]

Marco Sinhoreli is speaking on August 10th  at 2:20 pm on the Xen.org community, XCP initiative for Cloud Computing, and the Xen Hypervisor at the Cloud Computing Summit Brasil 2010. I will be posting the slides for his talk shortly. If you are attending the event, please be sure to attend this session.

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 Oracle VM Demo - ... [More] http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/08/02/really-cool-animated-demo-of-oracle-vm/ Why Xen? White Paper - http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/07/30/why-xen-paper-published/ Xen Events Poslovna Linux Konferenca – Sept 27-28, 2010 in Portoroz, Slovenia [...] [Less]

From Rob Hoes in xen-api: This is a proposal to introduce functionality in XCP to reset the networking configuration of an XCP host to the state it would be in after a fresh install. This is useful in case you simply want to configure networking on a host from scratch, and helps to recover a [...]