Good news for Debian users.
After quite a long while of doubts if there will be a working, complete Xen environment in the upcoming Debian Lenny, there are Xen packages with an up to date dom0 Kernel available: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686
Thanks to the debian guys who put their energy into getting this solved (whoever actually made these patches, [...]
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Good news: The probably well-known (though still in beta), Xen-based service EC2 from Amazon is getting a new feature, that some(at least myself di) might have missed since a while: Elastic Block Storage! While until know, changing data on the EC2 system could only be stored in a S3 webservice or any database running on [...]
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Joana Rutkowska and her team presented very interesting insights on Xen security, as well as attacks against it, at this years Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
In a trilogy of talks(”Xen 0wning trilogy”), they gave information about “Subverting the Xen Hypervisor”, “Detecting and preventing the Xen hypervisor subversions”, as well as “Bluepilling the Xen [...]
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We have added a new project to the projects page: Ganeti
Ganeti is a tool for the management of Virtualization clusters. It offers very easy management of systems with multiple virtualization servers and deployment of instances on these. It includes user-transparent setup of mirrored disks for these nodes with DRBD, running commands on all cluster noes [...]
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