XO situation report Happy new year! 2014 will be a great year for XO, because we plan to release the first stable version with professional support. Before that, our next objective is the last alpha version (alpha 3), and probably a beta after. Today, let's make a report of our work.
Introducing new interface As you may know, we are working on a new Alpha Release of Xen Orchestra (Alpha 3, codename "Clarinet"). This new version will introduce a totally new design, because we learned a lot of things about XAPI and what kind of information is really important to display. Thus,
Debian PVHVM vs PV This time, it's not a news about Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_pvhvm], but a benchmark of virtualization modes: PVHVM vs PV. When I saw the numbers from Rackspace [http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/welcome-to-performance-cloud-servers-have-some-benchmarks.html] , well... I choose to do my own tests here,
6000 visitors in October! Interest Getting 6000 visitors is not the only good news: our progression is very strong since June: And our participation to 3 events allows us to get a better visibility, that's why I want to thanks Lars Kurth [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/User:Lars.kurth] for his
Sketching the next interface After our previous release [/blog/new-alpha-release/], we choose to bring a better interface for XO. That's why we are currently thinking and sketching for the next step. We'll explain quickly our way to do so. Explore The first thing you need to build a good interface,
New alpha release Here is our new release of XO, with nice features embedded. Let's take a closer look. Robustness As planned [/blog/new-features-incoming/], we now manage pool master change in live: if you decide to change your pool master while XO is connected to it, we detect it and re-create
New design for the website A short post to tell you that our website [/] get a new design. If you have any comment or suggestion, feel free to comment.
New features incoming This week, we'll release interesting features in Xen Orchestra. Pool master redirect After a report from "msciciel" in our forum [/forum/index.php/8-pool-master-change], we decided to implement a redirect mechanism: if you add a server and it's not the pool master, we automatically
Video from Xen User Summit/Linux Con If you want to get an overview of Xen Orchestra project, this news is a nice opportunity to do so. Here is our session recorded in New Orleans. Slides are alsoavailable [http://xenproject.org/component/allvideoshare/video/latest/xen-orchestra-xapi-and-xenserver-from-the-web-xpus13-lambert.html] . Get the full story of Xen User Summit on linux.
Users and servers persistence A short news about the software itself: we have successfully implemented users and servers persistence in a database, using NoSQL (Redis [http://redis.io/]). Now, you can reboot/restart, you'll never lost your users nor your configured servers. Admin view now have two "pages", Users and
Meet us at Xen User Summit (LinuxCon) Good news everyone! We'll be present at LinuxCon in New Orleans (September 16 - 18, 2013), precisely in the Xen User Summit. If you want to see our talk about Xen Orchestra, please check the schedule [http://linuxconcloudopenna2013.sched.org/event/edb5791b29af0fe974dd97d29eb3f517] , it will be Wednesday, September 18,
New XO on tracks! As you may know, we choose to rebuild XO from scratch with Javascript (node.js), for numerous reasons [/blog/progress-report-and-planning/]. And we did it! For now, this version is usable without any configuration in the code or config files. Working stuff This version use node.js for xo-server and is
XenServer is now Opensource Hi everyone, What a great news! Citrix decides to release XenServer Open Source (source here [http://www.citrix.com/news/announcements/jun-2013/citrix-launches-open-source-xenserver.html] and here [http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2013/06/25/xenserver-org-and-the-xen-project/]). It gave us a lot of possibilities. First, it confirms our first choice during
Working with giants After almost a week in Dublin, we’re back with a debrief of the Xen Hackathon [http://www.xen.org/community/events/xenhackathondublin2013.html]. Please note this is from our point of view and that we’re not kernel or hypervisor hackers. Google Docks: our place to work We were
Current state and perspectives Hi everyone, The last (and first ;)) release of Xen-Orchestra go back to more than a month now and we haven't given you a lot of news. We have initially hoped to release a bug fix version since but unfortunately we have been quite busy with other projects. But
Xen hackathon We're going to Dublin this week, for the Xen Hackathon [http://www.xen.org/community/events/xenhackathondublin2013.html]. And this year, the event will be hosted by the Ganeti team at Google EU headquarters. We'll have the opportunity to discuss with a lot of Xen specialists
XO forum opened You can now sign in and create discussions on our new forum [/forum]. It's a better place to talk about project or troubles you may have installing/configuring XO. See you there!
First release out 2 month earlier, we made a presentation at FOSDEM about XO [/blog/back-from-fosdem-2013/]. In this presentation, we estimated to have a first release in march. And here we are! XO 1.0 "Archlute" We think "release often" is a good policy, even if our software is
First release scheduled I'm happy to announce that XO 1.0 will be released at the end of march (Thursday, March 28). This first release (codename "Archlute") will offer the possibility to view all important data from your XCP servers (Vm location on server, host memory, storage repo, templates
Users and permissions in XO Users management in XO takes an important place. A recurrent question is "why managing users in XO while XCP can do it?". Let's analyze how XO is dealing with users and why it's not the same goal as XCP. XO location It's
Code is available If you want to see our code, you can do that by going on our "global" github repo [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo]. Check the README for further explanations. Our objective is a first release for March, with only views on your XCP infrastructure, without interactions: it will
Back from FOSDEM 2013 Here is a small article about the FOSDEM. We were there! First of all, thanks to Lars [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/User:Lars.kurth] for the opportunity to be at the Xen Booth. It was great to meet directly people having interest in XO. And of course, to talk
Meet us at FOSDEM 2013! If you want to see a quick presentation of Xen Orchestra, and if you can travel to Belgium, come to see us in the Virt Devroom (details here [https://fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/xen_orchestra/]). Moreover, we'll be available for any questions/remarks at the Xen booth
Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs! Very often, people search how to resolve this annoying message, espacially when you reboot after a fresh Xen (or XCP) install. In this post, we'll understand what does it mean and how to fix it. Just a fresh install If you read previous article about installing XCP on
