The official Xen.org Press Release announcing Xen 3.3 has been posted here. There are many partner quotes in the release from Oracle, Novell, Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, Fujitsu, Samsung, Neocleus, Citrix, SignaCert, etc and I encourage everyone in the community to take a look. I just got a Google News email with the word “Xen” […]
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From Samuel Thibault:
The traditional way to configure a PV guest is to write in the configuration file the path to the kernel/initrd to be loaded. However, logically enough, these should be on the PV guest disk image, to allow them to be managed by the distribution installed inside the PV guest. PyGRUB used to act […]
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From Samuel Thibault:
To provide HVM domains with virtual hardware, Xen uses a modified version of qemu, ioemu. It used to run in dom0 as a root process, since it needs to directly access disks and tap network. That poses both a problem of security, as the qemu code base was not particularly meant to be […]
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From Samuel Thibault:
Domain 0 running a lot of components like physical device drivers, the domain builder, ioemu device models, PyGRUB, etc. has been worrisome from a security point of view, particularly since most of them run as root, and thus breaches there would potentially be disastrous. It also poses scalability issues since the hypervisor can […]
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I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In the past, Xen Summits have been held every 9 months with the majority of them being in North America. It is my intention, as you […]
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Xen.org Community:
As many of you are aware, I have been working the past few months to update the current Xen.org website to better target various users of the site as well as simplify the organization of the information. I have completed the web development and am now making the site available for feedback and comment. […]
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I have just posted Ian Pratt’s slides from LinuxWorld at http://www.xen.org/files/IanPrattlinuxworld-xen-Aug2008.pdf. Feel free to take a look…
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For those of you wanting to see the slides from Simon Crosby’s LinuxWorld Keynote, here they are. Entitled “Data Center of the Future: How the Delivery of Technology Will Change”, Crosby’s keynote focused more on Xen, its standing in the market and related news than on the future of the IT Industry.
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The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf.
Dial-in information:
1.888.371.8921
Global Number List: http://www.btconferencing.com/citrix/globalaccess/
Code: 275729
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Xen Community:
As with all things in the community, I would like to give everyone a chance to comment on a new document. The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 requires the release of a new 2 page datasheet. Here is a proposed document that I recently wrote - xen33datasheet.pdf. Please send me any of your thoughts.
Note […]
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