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Another Go at My Masters Project

About a year ago I started working on my masters project. The topic turned out to be … not interesting enough to hold my attention I guess. This ended up being for the best since shortly after losing interest in my first project I got picked up on a project at work that I managed [...]

Posted 08 May 2011 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Xen Network Driver Domain: How

In my last post I went into the reasons why exporting the network hardware from dom0 to an unprivileged driver domain is good for security. This time the “how” is our focus. The documentation out there isn’t perfect and it could use a bit of updating so expect to see a few edits to the [...]

Posted 20 July 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Xen Network Driver Domain: Why

If you’ve been watching the xen-user, xen-devel or the xen channel on freenode you’ve probably seen me asking questions about setting up a driver domain. You also may have noticed that the Xen wiki page dedicated to the topic [1] is a bit light on details. I’ve even had a few people contact me directly [...]

Posted 14 July 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,

xend fails silently

I’ve been giving myself a crash course in Xen recently. I’ve played with Xen in the past but it’s always annoyed me that the kernel for dom0 was super old (2.6.18). Debian has always been good with their support and the 2.6.26 kernel that ships with Lenny has worked well. Now that Xen 4.0 is [...]

Posted 29 April 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,