• XenUpdate20100305

March 1, 2010 - March 5, 2010

Xen.org Community Weekly Update

Full Newsletter for Week - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00295.html

Events

• Xen Summit North America - April 28-29, 2010 at AMD in Sunnyvale, CA

• Xen.org Booth at SouthEast LinuxFest - June 12-13, 2010

Xen Wiki Updates

• Xen Common Problems - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems

• Xen ParavirtOps - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

• Xen Users Questions - http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUsersQuestions

Xen-DEVEL Mailing List

Announcements

• New release candidates for Xen 3.4.3 and 4.0.0 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00050.html

• xen.git branches, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00162.html

• Xen.org Community Weekly Update Vol 10 No 9 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00295.html

General Issues

• Backport pygrub grub2 support to 3.4-testing, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00092.html

• [GIT PULL] pv/pcifront-2.6.32, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00082.html

• [GIT PULL] pv/fbfront, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00079.html

• [GIT PULL] pciback-2.6.31.6, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00170.html

Request for Comment & Discussion Threads

• [RFC][PATCH 0/6 - 6/6/] merge ocaml xenstored and dependencies - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00035.html

Submitted Patches & Discussion Threads

• [PATCH 1/3] xen: disable highmem PTE allocation even when CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y -
• [PATCH] blkfront: don't access freed struct xenbus_device -

• [PATCH] Linux: Fwd: blkfront: Fix an unlikely xenbus crasher - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00004.html

• [PATCH] linux/blktap2: Fwd: Re: Crash on blktap shutdown - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00003.html

• [PATCH] Linux: blktap2: Fwd: Fix wild ptr deref during device destruction. -
• [DOM0 KERNELS] pciback: Fix SR-IOV VF passthrough -

• [PATCH 0/7 - 7/7][v4] PV extension of HVM (Hybrid) for Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00012.html

• [PATCH 1 of 4 - 4 of 4] Linux pvops: add support for hvm_op - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00116.html

• [PATCH] Xen: enhanced PV on HVM - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00115.html

• [PATCH SERIES] enhanced PV on Xen HVM, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00114.html

• [PATCH][XEN] p2m cleanup: remove unused function - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00112.html

• [PATCH] x86: use key handler scratch buffer in dump_irqs() - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00094.html

• [PATCH] Add a missing CR in printk - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00077.html

• [PATCH] Add APERF/MPERF support for AMD processors, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00055.html

• [PATCH] x86-64: fix hotplug fault handling for 32-bit domains' M2P range, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00143.html

• [PATCH] xentop: tmem: no stats for non-tmem domains, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00139.html

• [PATCH] fix domain exit actions that contain hyphen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00135.html

• [PATCH] Replace config file parser for "xl", - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00123.html

• [PATCH][v5] PV extension of HVM(hybrid) in support in Xen, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00208.html

• [PATCH 0/7 - 7/7][v5] PV extension of HVM (Hybrid) for Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00202.html

• [PATCH] vt-d: ensure x2apic is not enabled accidently if no DRHD at all., - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00187.html

• [PATCH, PV-GRUB DOC] Add details to PV-GRUB documentation, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00169.html

• Patch to fix pygrub with grub2 when /boot is a separate partition - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00270.html

• [PATCH] Makefile targets generating several files at once - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00280.html

• [PATCH] Fix config file interpretation when pci= not specified - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00236.html

• [PATCH][v6] PV extension of HVM(hybrid) support in Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00265.html

• [PATCH 0/7 - 7/7][v6] PV extension of HVM (Hybrid) for Xen - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00259.html

• reports of xend not starting - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00240.html

• [PATCH] x86/hvm: accelerate IO intercept handling -

Execution Errors

• domU network slowdown with new dom0 kernel - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00041.html

• Installation error: partition does not exist, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00111.html

• floppy not working in Linux, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00222.html

• pvgrub crashing after selecting kernel to boot, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00178.html

• xend internal error on 4.0.0-rc6-pre - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00284.html

• Debian Lenny 2.6.26-2-xen-686 crashing as multi-vcpu domU, stack trace - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00281.html

• xen/stable 2.6.32.9 32bit dom0 kernel crashes early on boot - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00243.html

• Xen 4.0.0-rc5 with xen/stable 2.6.32.9 dom0 kernel, blktap2, relative mouse - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00225.html

Code Questions

• Intel: Overly restrictive test for availablility of CPUID masking MSRs? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00098.html

• When does domain builder allocate/bound DomU's XenStore port?, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00088.html

• Mapping guest physical addresses to guest virtual addresses, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00060.html

• About stub-dm and gfx on xen 4, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00153.html

• x2apic mode vs. interrupt remapping, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00147.html

• XenSocket error, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00188.html

• set_msi_affinity() vs. pci_restore_msi_state() - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00293.html

Compiling Issues

• Build error occurred, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00180.html

• 4.0 config file/ build error - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00271.html

How to Questions

Weekly Benchmark Tests

• [IA64] Weekly benchmark results [2010ww09] - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00266.html

Xen Cloud Issues

• XCP 64 bits ?, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-03/msg00215.html

Xen Client Issues

Projects

Xen-API Mailing List

Announcements

Request for Comment

Patches

• [PATCH] CA-38370: Perfmon barfs when dom0 root disk is a long path - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00001.html

• [PATCH] make sure VM_metrics records exist - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00002.html

• [PATCH] [CA-38362] Restarting Xapi no longer clears the "VM_guest_metrics.other" field for running VMs, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00006.html

• [PATCH] [CA-38359] Restarting Xapi no longer changes "PV-drivers-up-to-date" from "true" to "false" for running VMs - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00005.html

• [PATCH] CA-24629: xapi does not close the connection after either /pool/xmldbdump or /export_metadata complete - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00011.html

• [PATCH] [CA-38363 and CA-38364] All types of VM clone operation now clone the guest metrics record if one is present - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00014.html

• [PATCH] Fix heap corruption/segfault in C stub - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00023.html

• [PATCH] Remove some unused variables from a C stub - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00022.html

Compilation Issue

General Question

• Future of "current" Python API and further developement - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00000.html

• Beginner of xen api - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00008.html

Code Question

• Problems in extracting VIF metrics - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00012.html

How To

• Data metrics exported by Xen API - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-api/2010-03/msg00003.html

Execution Error

Xen-USERS Mailing List

Announcements

• Introducing ConVirt 2.0 ! - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00026.html

• FYI: FreeBSD HAST project, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00060.html

• Xen.org Community Weekly Update Vol 10 No 9 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00181.html

General Questions

• git 4.0 rc4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00161.html

Execution Issues

• Xen 3.3.1 and Pv-grub don't work -

Boot - Installation - Startup

• Guest boot problem on centOS 5.4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00045.html

• Dom0 fails to boot CentOS 5.4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00012.html

• Installation error: partition does not exist, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00072.html

• xen won't start - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00054.html

• Resize DomU partition, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00036.html

• Xen 3.4 binary tarball, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00090.html

• Installing xen on RHEL 5.4 - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00165.html

Networking

• How to: Improve Network Throughput of a XEN kernel? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00011.html

• network bridge fails after reboot, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00083.html

• NTP in xen vm? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00122.html

• How to do vlan with xen 3.3? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00177.html

PCI Pass-Through

• xen/next & pvm pci passthrough?, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00040.html

• VT-d passthrough - NMI crashes system - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00164.html

High Availability Questions - Load Balancing

• Live checkpointing not working in 3.4.x? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00139.html

Live Migration

Live CD

Storage/Disk/Memory

• Anything wrong with ext3 for storage - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00019.html

• lvm problem. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00074.html

• Windows 2003 domU can not use 7G RAM ? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00095.html

• xen storage options - plase advise - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00119.html

Compilation Questions

• 4.0 config file error. - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00173.html

How To Questions

• Windows domU opitimization - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00013.html

• Deleting a uuid? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00087.html

• unkillable zombie domU-s without IDs - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00108.html

• how to know processes running inside domU, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00096.html

• How to know Patch status XEN domUs? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00110.html

• Disabling GPLPV on Windows 7, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00116.html

• vcpus and vcpu_avail - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00178.html

Design Questions

• XEN and clustering? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00022.html

• Firewall settings for domUs in Xen! - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00176.html

Performance

Xen Cloud Platform

• XCP : workload load balancing with xen cloud platform ?, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00071.html

• XCP Hanging at Setting Hostname - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00047.html

• XCP vm-import fouls up, - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00033.html

• XCP pool-ha-enable - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00109.html

• XCP 64 bits ? - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-03/msg00147.html

Xen Client Issues