svn commit: r50440 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Jul 3 16:57:14 UTC 2017

Author: bjk
Date: Mon Jul  3 16:57:13 2017
New Revision: 50440
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/50440

Log:
  Add 2017Q2 entry on the Xen section in the Handbook from bcr

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Mon Jul  3 16:48:37 2017	(r50439)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.xml	Mon Jul  3 16:57:13 2017	(r50440)
@@ -711,4 +711,49 @@
 	available.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='doc'>
+    <title>New Xen Handbook Section</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Benedict</given>
+	  <common>Reuschling</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>bcr at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/virtualization-host-xen.html">Handbook Section About &os; as a Xen Host</url>
+      <url href="https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10774">Original Phabricator Review</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>&os; supports the Xen hypervisor, with DomU support since
+	&os; 8.0 and Dom0 available since &os; 11.0.  The
+	&os; Handbook was lacking instructions on how to run a Xen
+	host and VMs.  The steps were outlined in the &os; wiki, but
+	needed some extra bits of text from the upstream Xen wiki in
+	order to form a complete guide.  The new handbook section
+	briefly explains what Xen is, how it differs from other
+	hypervisors, and what features are currently available in
+	&os;.  It then goes on to describe how to set up the Dom0, as
+	well as detailing the guest VM support known as DomU.</p>
+
+      <p>Reviewers Nikolai Lifanov, Roger Pau Monné, and Warren Block
+	provided valuable feedback on the initial version in
+	Phabricator.  Additional corrections were found by Björn
+	Heidotting while translating the section into German.</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>More options for the Dom0 and DomU could be provided.</task>
+
+      <task>People should test these instructions on their hardware
+	and provide feedback.  This would also help us get better
+	testing of the Xen port for &os;.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
