Xen Management

Jeremy and I have started work on our new Xen Management tool. It’s going to be a Java servlet based tool called jXenophilia. Its part of our CS450 work so we won’t be able to release it until the end of the semester but its going to have some pretty cool features. It’s going to support a plugin architecture and use the Xen Webservices API that I’m going to develop for Xen3. We’re also looking into adding support for deploying guest images, and doing guest configuration using templates or inheritance. In other Xen news I’m working on modifying the OOM killer to ask Xen’s balloon driver for more memory.

The new hotness

Earlier this week my laptop decided it was finally time to die. Monday morning the video card decided to stop working. After a couple of days of using ssh to connect to my laptop I decided it was a good time to get a new machine.

I ended up getting a new 12 inch iBook. It’s pretty sweet and I like it alot. I also purchased iWork after trying Keynote in the store. And yes I drove all the way to Syracuse because I couldn’t stand to wait a week for Apple to ship me a laptop. I’ll probably be posting some pictures later on this weekend.