Xen 3.3 DataSheet Proposal
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....
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature Details
Xen.org Community: As part of the Xen 3.3 release, I have asked the various development authors to supply me with information on their new features. Over the next few weeks, I will be posting their...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature: Stub Domains
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,...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature: HVM Device Model Domain
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...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature: PV-GRUB
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...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature: Optimized HVM Video Memory Tracking
From Samuel Thibault: When having a look at how much CPU time is used when an HVM guest is idle, one can notice that the ioemu process used to permanently take something like 7%. This is because ioemu...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Press Release
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,...
View ArticleXen 3.3 Feature – C & P State Power Management
One of the notable features of Xen 3.3 is to incorporate full support for processor power management features, C-states and P-states. Power management is getting more crucial not only for clients, but...
View ArticleXen Document Project Update
For those of you curious about the Xen Document project, you can see the latest at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. All documentation requests are posted on the site along...
View ArticleXen 3.3 a Finalist for 2009 CODIE Awards from SIIA
Congrats to the Xen Community as the Xen 3.3 release was named a finalist in the 2009 CODIE awards in the Best Open Source Solution Category. A second round of judging will begin on March 16....
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