It’s been 5 months since my last post about my on-going project required by my masters program at SU. With the hope of eventually getting my degree, this is my last post on the subject. In my previous post on this topic I described a quick prototype I coded up to test an example program [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
