[XenAccess-devel] XenAccess 0.2 Release

[Bryan D. P. <br...@th...>]

FYI, version 0.2 is now available for download.  The major changes  
from 0.1 to 0.2 include:

* Caching -- addresses are cached to avoid duplicate page table  
lookups and/or disk access (e.g., looking in System.map to find a  
vaddr for a kernel symbol).  You should see a visible difference in  
the speed of basic operations (e.g., run module-list in 0.1 followed  
by module-list in 0.2).  Cache size is configurable by changing the  
value of XA_CACHE_SIZE in xa_private.h, but the default value should  
be good for most people.  The cache operates by removing the least  
recently used item when it needs to add a new entry (i.e., it is an  
LRU cache).

* Compatibility with Xen 3.0.2 -- many people have reported trouble  
using v0.1 with the 2.6.16 kernel in more recent versions of Xen.   
This release aims to address these problems.

As always, let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy,
bryan


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Bryan D. Payne
Graduate Student, Computer Science
Georgia Tech Information Security Center
http://www.bryanpayne.org