New xen-sources-2.6.31-r9 have been released. The ebuild is available here. Finally, the xen-sources-2.6.31-r7 have been replaced by the 9th release, since the r7 release has been deprecated due to many problems.... Read more...

Finally xen-sources-2.6.31-r7 have been released at gentoo-xen-kernel developers website. It would be very interesting to give it a try compiling them on Debian too. I personally tried the xen-sources-2.6.29-r4 obtaining great results (on Gentoo Linux, of course).  ... Read more...

Sometimes it could be useful to run Xephyr as root, but something unexpected may happen.For example, this could be a common problem: # Xephyr -ac :1No protocol specifiedXephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set? The solution is to log in as a normal user and issue the following command: # xauth list You will get something like this: VDDServer/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  34tf17yt938rddd324j37b9a09e664... Read more...

I've just come back from Munich (Germany), from the First International Conference on Cloud Computing. I presented the paper "Virtual Distro Dispatcher: a light-weight Desktop-as-a-Service solution" which interested many people, asking me a lot of question about the project we are involved in.... Read more...