After months of development, many sleepless nights fueled by Mountain Dew and Folgers Coffee, the Clarkson Open Source Institute is proud to announce an alpha release of Xenophilia codenamed Laura. Xenophilia is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is based around Xen. Laura is currently in an alpha state and is under heavy development. It''s not considered stable and It may eat your system and then start doing bad things. If it breaks please file a bug here. In addition to a Linux distribution we currently have gXenophilia, which is in a rough alpha form. gXenophilia is a pyGtk based administration application that talks http. Screenshots are available http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/screenshots/ . Documentation is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/docs.html Bugs can be reported at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/bugs/main_page.php Downloads are available at http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia Mike McCabe _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
After months of development, many sleepless nights fueled by Mountain Dew and Folgers Coffee, the Clarkson Open Source Institute is proud to announce an alpha release of Xenophilia codenamed Laura. Xenophilia is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is based around Xen. Laura is currently in an alpha state and is under heavy development. It''s not considered stable and It may eat your system and then start doing bad things. If it breaks please file a bug here. In addition to a Linux distribution we currently have gXenophilia, which is in a rough alpha form. gXenophilia is a pyGtk based administration application that talks http. Screenshots are available http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/screenshots/ . Documentation is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/docs.html Bugs can be reported at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/bugs/main_page.php Downloads are available at http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia Mike McCabe _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
After months of development, many sleepless nights fueled by Mountain Dew and Folgers Coffee, the Clarkson Open Source Institute is proud to announce an alpha release of Xenophilia codenamed Laura. Xenophilia is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is based around Xen. Laura is currently in an alpha state and is under heavy development. It''s not considered stable and It may eat your system and then start doing bad things. If it breaks please file a bug here. In addition to a Linux distribution we currently have gXenophilia, which is in a rough alpha form. gXenophilia is a pyGtk based administration application that talks http. Screenshots are available http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/screenshots/ . Documentation is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/docs.html Bugs can be reported at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/bugs/main_page.php Downloads are available at http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia Mike McCabe _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Michael McCabe wrote:>Xenophilia is a Debian derivative Linux distribution that is based >around Xen. Laura is currently in an alpha state and is under heavy >development. It''s not considered stable and It may eat your system and >then start doing bad things. If it breaks please file a bug here. > >My first question is why create a specialized distribution? Is there any direct benefit other than ease of use?>In addition to a Linux distribution we currently have gXenophilia, which >is in a rough alpha form. gXenophilia is a pyGtk based administration >application that talks http. Screenshots are available >http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/screenshots/ . > >This is neat! Can you explain the "talks http" a little more? Does it communicate with remote Xend''s via Xend''s HTTP interface or does it export it''s own management protocol via http?>Documentation is available at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/docs.html >Bugs can be reported at http://cosi.clarkson.edu/xen/bugs/main_page.php >Downloads are available at >http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/xenophilia > >Great work! Look forward to seeing more about it in the future... Regards, Anthony Liguori>Mike McCabe > > >_______________________________________________ >Xen-devel mailing list >Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > >_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Anthony> My first question is why create a specialized distribution? Is there > any direct benefit other than ease of use?Ease of use is the big benefit of a specialized distribution. We''re planning on adding kickstart support using the udeb''s that Ubuntu wrote that will allow for quick mass installations though.> This is neat! Can you explain the "talks http" a little more? Does it > communicate with remote Xend''s via Xend''s HTTP interface or does it > export it''s own management protocol via http?Currently it talks via Xend''s http interface. We have been thinking implenting a new protocol that has some ideas of state though as this would make for a much more user friendly experience. Thanks for the feedback Mike McCabe _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
> Ease of use is the big benefit of a specialized distribution. We''re > planning on adding kickstart support using the udeb''s that Ubuntu wrote > that will allow for quick mass installations though.Cool! It''s nice to see Xen supported in as many distros as possible. Are you planning to submit any patches back to the core Debian distribution?> Currently it talks via Xend''s http interface. We have been thinking > implenting a new protocol that has some ideas of state though as this > would make for a much more user friendly experience.You may find it worth discussing this on xen-devel since there are various tools changes underway. Note also that there is (I think) an "event server" in Xend that can notify your client when changes occur. As a random related point: one thing that''d be cool is to have a VMWare style persistent notion of a "virtual machine", eg. "Debian Test box", "FreeBSD development", etc.... The tools would remember where the config for that machine was and whether there''s a currently suspended image of that machine that should be resumed on launch. You''d then selected that VM out of a list and just say "start this". Have you thought about this? Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel