svn commit: r43570 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Jan 20 11:01:28 UTC 2014

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Jan 20 11:01:28 2014
New Revision: 43570
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43570

Log:
  - Add a 2013Q4 report on the Xen PVH support
  
  Submitted by:	royger

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Mon Jan 20 06:00:46 2014	(r43569)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml	Mon Jan 20 11:01:28 2014	(r43570)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: Keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 36 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 37 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between January and
       March 2014 is April 7th, 2014.</p>
@@ -2024,4 +2024,60 @@ device vt_vga</pre>
       <p>This project was sponsored by The &os; Foundation.</p>
     </body>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='arch'>
+    <title>&os;/Xen</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Roger</given>
+	  <common>Pau Monné</common>
+	</name>
+
+	<email>royger at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Justin T.</given>
+	  <common>Gibbs</common>
+	</name>
+
+	<email>gibbs at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/FreeBSD_PVH">&os; PVH wiki page</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Xen is a native (bare-metal) hypervisor providing services that
+	allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same
+	computer hardware concurrently.  Xen 4.4 will bring a
+	virtualization mode called PVH — PV (paravirtualization)
+	in an HVM (fully-virtual) container.  This is essentially a
+	paravirtualized guest using paravirtualized drivers for boot and
+	I/O.  Otherwise it uses hardware virtualization extensions,
+	without the need for emulation.</p>
+
+      <p>After merging the changes in order to improve Xen PVHVM
+	support, work has shifted on getting PVH DomU support on &os;.
+	Patches have been posted, and after a couple of rounds of review
+	the series looks almost ready for merging into <tt>head</tt>.
+	Also, very initial patches for &os; PVH Dom0 support has been
+	posted.  So far the posted series only focus on getting &os;
+	booting as Dom0 and being able to interact with the
+	hardware.</p>
+
+      <p>This project is sponsored by Citrix Systems R&D and Spectra
+	Logic Corporation.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>Finish review and commit PVH DomU support.</task>
+      <task>Work on PVH Dom0 support.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
