Mike McClurg

In March, 2011, we released the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 1.0, a fully-featured server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. In this talk we'll explore: - Xapi, the XenAPI management daemon, written in OCaml; - Cool functionality, such as live VM migration between hosts (with no shared storage); - PCI device passthrough to VMs for native performance; - A new system architecture designed to provide XCP with better security, scalability, performance, and reliability; - Future directions and next year's roadmap.

In March, 2011, we released the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 1.0, a fully-featured server virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. XCP ad s additional functionality on top of Xen, such as a management server for ease of use and configurability, storage and network management, and easy integration with cloud orchestration layers like OpenStack and CloudStack. Today, Xen and XCP power the largest clouds in production.

In this talk we'll explore: - Xapi, the XenAPI management daemon, written in OCaml; - Cool functionality, such as live VM migration between hosts (with no shared storage); - PCI device passthrough to VMs for native performance; - A new system architecture designed to provide XCP with better security, scalability, performance, and reliability; - Future directions and next year's roadmap.

The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) is an open source virtualization platform based on the Xen hypervisor. XCP isn't a server application which you install alongside of Xen, but rather an "embedded" appliance, which manages your host. While this gives XCP developers the ability to provide a tightly controlled, well integrated system, it makes it more difficult for FOSS developers to use and modify our software. To correct this, we have recently ported the XCP toolstack to run on Debian; it is currently in Debian unstable and will be in the next release of Ubuntu. In this presentation, we would like to demonstrate the XCP toolstack running on Ubuntu. We will show how easy it is to use the toolstack to create and manage virtual machines, and how you can use XCP and XenServer management tools with the XCP toolstack on Ubuntu. We will also demo our software running OpenStack.