• WhosDoingWhat

Use this page to note what people are working on. Longer descriptions and discussions can be put on to new pages linked from here.

Xen

PAE

PowerPC

Port of the Xen core to PowerPC 970, with the intention to support current PPC Linux kernels/distributions using the IBM pSeries hypervisor interface. The Hg tree is available at http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xenppc-unstable.hg. More notes available on the XenPPC page.

Hollis Blanchard, IBM

Jimi Xenidis, IBM

Documentation

Robb Romans, IBM

XenLinux

Integration into mainline kernel

Shared memory filesystem fsfront / fsback (XenFS)

XenFS uses virtualisation at the VFS level. Extremely high performance alternative to NFS. Planned features: copy on write filesystems, memory sharing for high performance IO with minimised memory footprint, application level interdomain memory sharing using standard mmap API.

Mark Williamson, University of Cambridge

Virtual Sound Device

Allow you to hear sound from a virtual machine, without having to use a sound-over-network system.

Mark Williamson, University of Cambridge

Kexec

Implement kexec support for guests and later for the whole host. Guest kexec support is useful for implementing guest bootloader functionality. Host kexec is useful for fast reboots, particularly on larger systems.

Mark Williamson, University of Cambridge

XenNetBSD

Tools

XmTest

• Framework for i386 architecture working.
• Framework for x86_64 and HVM architecture underway.
• extending networking and HVM tests.

  • Refer to XmTest

Woody Marvel, IBM

Dan Smith. IBM