Some description of EC2 Internals. EC2s are XEN VMs, mine is currently using Xen 3.0.3-rc5-8.1.14.f , which appears to be
F14 Xen package re-build on RHEl5.x (this is by looking at compiler version) . Some info in the article appears to a bit o…
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Guest Operating system support chat for XEN
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right now ppl are using linux bridges as virtual switches for XEN/KVM VMs. Open vSwitch is an improvement over linux bridge that supports industry standard protocol and features and IOS-like CLI — [when project matures] ]you should be able trunk yo…
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a way to ‘sync’ block devices in ‘rsync’ style. Useful to implement backup of xen VMs based on LVM volumes. Also see http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server
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Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint
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note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)
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web management for XEN, including installing, monitoring and console. Based on libvirt, written in python, ,uses JQuery for interface, tightvnc-java for console, SQLite [default], MySQL, PostgreSQL as database.
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Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .
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list of hosting providers that host XEN (PV) images. /some host custom images/
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new project from redhat to provide management console for XEN, KVM [and everything that can be managed via libvirt]
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