From Dan Magenheimer at Oracle:
Memory overcommit provides the ability for the sum of the physical memory allocated to all active domains to exceed the total physical memory on the system. For example, if your machine has 4GB of RAM and you want to run as many 1GB domains as possible, you can run at most […]
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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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First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV ‘08) December 10–11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/wiov08
WIOV ‘08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ‘08), December 8–10, 2008.
Overview
Over the past decade, the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety […]
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Here are three links to a recent Ian Pratt interview with Virtualization.com:
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
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Congrats to the authors of Running Xen for having a book review on slashdot…
http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/06/09/1413220.shtml
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Here it is, the final (is it every final) Xen Summit Boston Agenda along with a separate document containing the topic abstracts.
xensummit_agenda.pdf
xensummit_presentationtopics.pdf
Extended abstracts on topics being presented at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Open_Topics_For_Discussion.
A big thanks for the incredible efforts of the Xen Summit Program Committee in putting together this exciting event. Looking forward to meeting everyone in a few […]
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So, here I am, writing my first post on the new Xen.org blog. The idea here is to give us developers working around Xen somewhere where we can publish information on what we’re doing, etc. This is something of a first for me since I’ve never really had my own blog before! […]
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