similar to: Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15

Hi, Wei Liu hinted that I should "chime in and / or provide corrections" (his words). I'll attempt to do exactly that by not really replying to anything specific. For the record, when I say "we" in this mail, I mean "people who have contributed to the rump kernel project" (as also indicated by the email-hat). First of all, there's a difference between

On 08/09/15 16:15, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > >> For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can >> provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. > > I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_ the application? It sound > s like it builds but the name suggests otherwise. For all

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can > provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_ the application? It sound s like it builds but the name suggests otherwise. > Rumprun also provides > toolchain wrappers so that you can compile

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 18:38 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > On 08/09/15 16:15, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 15:03 +0000, Antti Kantee wrote: > > > > > For unikernels, the rump kernel project provides Rumprun, which can > > > provide you with a near-full POSIX'y interface. > > > > I'm not 100% clear: Does rumprun _build_ or _run_

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Stubdomains When I passed these notes around internally for sanity checking we ended up discussing this issue, since we decided it would be better to move this to xen-devel I'm quoting the thread below with permission. It was a bit tricky to flatten the thread into a single mail, but it wasn't too "branchy" so I think

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 03:47 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > > On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > > Release cycle > > ============= > > > > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like > > to see a release after any large security update. > > > > We asked if the RCs for stable releases

>>> On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > Release cycle > ============= > > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like > to see a release after any large security update. > > We asked if the RCs for stable releases were valuable, the answer was > "not so much". > > Waldi would prefer to

>>> On 08.09.15 at 12:15, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 03:47 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote: >> > > > On 08.09.15 at 11:24, <ian.campbell at citrix.com> wrote: >> > Release cycle >> > ============= >> > >> > Waldi commented that the stable release cycle was too long. Would like >> > to see

Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: > Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> > Hi waldi, >>> > >>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream >>> have >>> > released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final

Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: > Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >>> > Hi waldi, >>> > >>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream >>> have >>> > released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final

Il 18/05/2014 20:11, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: > Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >> Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >>>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >>>> > Hi waldi, >>>> > >>>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream >>>> have

Il 18/05/2014 20:11, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: > Il 17/05/2014 18:54, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >> Il 03/05/2014 11:30, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto: >>>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >>>> > Hi waldi, >>>> > >>>> > Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream >>>> have

I''m really interested in openmirage, erlang on xen, mini-os, rump kernels (just saw that today), or anything that runs directly on xen. I think there''s a huge potential and use case with these technologies. I have a random question though. I''ve only seen these type of things running on Xen. Is there any specific reason you don''t see much on KVM? Maybe

qemu-stubdom was stripping the prefix from the "params" xenstore key in xenstore_parse_domain_config, which was then saved stripped in a variable. In xenstore_process_event we compare the "param" from xenstore (not stripped) with the stripped "param" saved in the variable, which leads to a medium change (even if there isn't any), since we are comparing something

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15"): > Right - 4.4.3 already was released with just one RC, and indeed I > meant to stay with that model considering the little (if any) feedback > we get on these RCs. I personally could live without doing any RCs, > but [...] Having had the chance to reflect I am convinced that we should stop doing RCs for

>>> On 08.09.15 at 12:49, <Ian.Jackson at eu.citrix.com> wrote: > Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Notes from Xen BoF at Debconf15"): >> Right - 4.4.3 already was released with just one RC, and indeed I >> meant to stay with that model considering the little (if any) feedback >> we get on these RCs. I personally could live without doing any RCs,

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 18:26 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Ian Campbell, le Tue 08 Sep 2015 17:15:40 +0100, a ?crit : > > Is it at all possible (even theoretically) to take a shared library > > (which > > is relocatable as required) and to do a compile time static linking > > pass on > > it? i.e. use libfoo.so but still do static linking? > > ? gcc test.c

On 04/19/2014 03:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: >> Hi waldi, >> >> Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream have >> released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final version next >> week (I've been out of the office for a bit, so I don't know the precise >> state,

Hi folks PV-GRUB built from Xen 3.3.0 is not able to read from devices without a partition table: | grubdom> root (hd0) | Filesystem type unknown, using whole disk Part of the config: | disk = [ "phy:vg0_sledgehammer/servext_root,xvda,w" ] Device: | # file -s /dev/vg0_sledgehammer/servext_root | /dev/vg0_sledgehammer/servext_root: symbolic link to

Based on Waldi''s RFC at http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-09/msg00943.html To use it set vif.default.script="vif-openvswitch" in /etc/xen/xl.conf or use script=vif-openvswitch in the vif configuration. Appears to do the right thing for PV and HVM guests (including tap devices) and with stubdomains. In order to support VLAN tagging and trunking the