Finally some hack time

Finally managed to get in some quality hack time this morning on my CS450 project. Managed to get the build system setup, and I designed and implemented most of the common virtualization interfaces, so if Xen 3 ever manages to stabilize we’ll be able to implement support for that to. We’ve also got a good chunk of our project plan completed. It’s a bit aggresive but we should be able to get everything accomplished.

Also managed to start working on my Tuxmasters in the past couple of days. It looks like I will have to implement a specialized filesystem for Xen overcommit support, the Linux swap support doesn’t look like it will be fast enough. I think I’ve found the code path that I’d like to have the balloon driver replace so the OOM Killer doesn’t actually get executed. It’ll be interesting to see how effective my approach is.

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A Break for the Ages

Got break from a great fall break last night. Had a good time, managed to get out of Potsdam for just under a week. Visited a couple of my old friends from high school and caused a bit of trouble at Geneseo.

Did a bit of hacking on Xen related stuff, but not to much as I was generally disconnected from the internet. I didn’t get to do the IBM Mainframe challenge due to the generally suckiness of Adelphia Powerlink. It kept on going up and down about every 5 minutes throughout the day on Monday. Pretty shitty, but probably doesn’t matter because I wouldn’t have enough time to complete part 3.

And my OSDL contest entry is a bit larger than last year. I’m going to be working on hacking the Linux OOM Killer and possibly implementing Xen Overcommit support so you could swap entire domains in a fashion similiar to z/VM.