[ogb-discuss] New project: OpenSolaris Xen project

John Levon john.levon at sun.com
Thu Feb 7 17:47:20 PST 2008


OpenSolaris Xen project                                                                                                                                                           
Sponsoring communities: ON, Xen                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                                  
This OpenSolaris project will focus on the development and hosting of                                                                                                             
the Xen support provided as part of the ON Nevada and Indiana projects.                                                                                                           
In particular the intent of this project is to provide storage and                                                                                                                
management for the Xen gate, which is composed of a number of Mercurial                                                                                                           
source repositories. This software includes (at this time):                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                  
 - urlgrabber                                                                                                                                                                     
 - virt-install                                                                                                                                                                   
 - libvirt                                                                                                                                                                        
 - the Xen hypervisor and control tools                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                  
This project does not cover the support already within ON for running on                                                                                                          
Xen, which remains part of the ON consolidation.  The initial project                                                                                                             
team will be a party of one: myself.                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                  
The intent at some point, hopefully soon, is to migrate the entirety of                                                                                                           
the currently-internal Xen gate out to running on opensolaris.org.                                                                                                                
Almost all elements of this are in place already: the only significant                                                                                                            
components missing are integration with existing gatekeeper procedure,                                                                                                            
and some work on the Xen gate tools to understand opensolaris.org's                                                                                                               
setup.                                                                                                                                                                            

regards
john


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