Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[Alan C. Oehler]

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I'm the tech writer at XenSource and I'm planning to devote some energies to improving the Xen User Manual. To that end, I'm eliciting feedback from the community.

Please respond here on the list if you have any notions about how the manual might be improved, and I'll collect and review the feedback, prioritize it, and do all I can to move it forward.

* Is anything glaringly omitted from the manual that should be there?

* Are there any sections that are notably incomplete or lacking in clarity?

* Is the current organization of the material reasonable? If not, how would you like to see it changed?

Thanks very much!

Regards,

Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc.

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Re: Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[Matt Ayres]

Alan C. Oehler wrote:
> I'm the tech writer at XenSource and I'm planning to devote some 
> energies to improving the Xen User Manual. To that end, I'm eliciting 
> feedback from the community.
> 
> Please respond here on the list if you have any notions about how the 
> manual might be improved, and I'll collect and review the feedback, 
> prioritize it, and do all I can to move it forward.
> 

Both the SEDF and BVT schedulers along with their appropriate options 
needs to be documented much better, preferably with some examples for each.

Thanks,
Matt Ayres

Re: Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[Christian Horn]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:46:12AM -0700, Alan C. Oehler wrote:
> * Are there any sections that are notably incomplete or lacking in clarity?

- how to use vnc, when is it available at all
- how is qemu used by xen, and that the accelerator-module
isnt usable yet  with xen

would be worth documenting - 
shame on me if i just searched in the wrong places ;)

Christian

RE: Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[Mito]

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I would like to see the addition of how to use customized networking.  I
finally got NAT networking working, but all documentation that I ran across
was from other sources, the Xen manual doesn't even mention NAT other than
in the sentence that says "other options are available".
 
Thanks for all your work!
Mito
 
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Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision
 
I'm the tech writer at XenSource and I'm planning to devote some energies to
improving the Xen User Manual. To that end, I'm eliciting feedback from the
community.

Please respond here on the list if you have any notions about how the manual
might be improved, and I'll collect and review the feedback, prioritize it,
and do all I can to move it forward.

* Is anything glaringly omitted from the manual that should be there?

* Are there any sections that are notably incomplete or lacking in clarity?

* Is the current organization of the material reasonable? If not, how would
you like to see it changed?

Thanks very much!

Regards,

Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc. 

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RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[Anthony Wood]

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Hi Alan,
 
I support the HVM requests others have made.  Particularly confusing for me
was that I started with Xen 3.0.2 which seemed to have changed all
references to vmx to hvm including files, this meant I rebuilt xen numerous
times trying to get vmx files (e.g. vmx-builder) when I already had hvm
files (e.g. hvm-builder) and didn't need anything else.
 
Some ways of telling whether your computer supports hvm, e.g. a simple test
program.
 
How to move real partitions to file backed partitions.
 
Using VNC/RDP/SDL.
 
I think heaps of examples in both networking and HVM would be excellent.
 
Also some notes about various operating system restrictions about changing
the hardware between reboots and how to avoid those problems.
 
Links to the Wiki for each section of the manual would be excellent, meaning
you would:
 
a) hopefully have a more up to date manual just a click away
b) have a handy reference for when you are actually updating the manual
c) harness the community to collect bits for the manual in a place handy for
you
 
cheers,
Woody
 
(sorry about top-posting - just going with the flow)


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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Mito
Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:44
To: 'Alan C. Oehler'; xen-users@lists.xensource.com;
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision


I would like to see the addition of how to use customized networking.  I
finally got NAT networking working, but all documentation that I ran across
was from other sources, the Xen manual doesn't even mention NAT other than
in the sentence that says "other options are available".
 
Thanks for all your work!
Mito
 

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From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Alan C. Oehler
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:46 PM
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision
 
I'm the tech writer at XenSource and I'm planning to devote some energies to
improving the Xen User Manual. To that end, I'm eliciting feedback from the
community.

Please respond here on the list if you have any notions about how the manual
might be improved, and I'll collect and review the feedback, prioritize it,
and do all I can to move it forward.

* Is anything glaringly omitted from the manual that should be there?

* Are there any sections that are notably incomplete or lacking in clarity?

* Is the current organization of the material reasonable? If not, how would
you like to see it changed?

Thanks very much!

Regards,

Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc. 

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RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision

[xen]

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Hi Alan,
 
I support the HVM requests others have made.  Particularly confusing for me
was that I started with Xen 3.0.2 which seemed to have changed all
references to vmx to hvm including files, this meant I rebuilt xen numerous
times trying to get vmx files (e.g. vmx-builder) when I already had hvm
files (e.g. hvm-builder) and didn't need anything else.
 
Some ways of telling whether your computer supports hvm, e.g. a simple test
program.
 
How to move real partitions to file backed partitions.
 
Using VNC/RDP/SDL.
 
I think heaps of examples in both networking and HVM would be excellent.
 
Also some notes about various operating system restrictions about changing
the hardware between reboots and how to avoid those problems.
 
Links to the Wiki for each section of the manual would be excellent, meaning
you would:
 
a) hopefully have a more up to date manual just a click away
b) have a handy reference for when you are actually updating the manual
c) harness the community to collect bits for the manual in a place handy for
you
 
cheers,
Woody
 
(sorry about top-posting - just going with the flow)

  _____  

From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Mito
Sent: Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:44
To: 'Alan C. Oehler'; xen-users@lists.xensource.com;
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision


I would like to see the addition of how to use customized networking.  I
finally got NAT networking working, but all documentation that I ran across
was from other sources, the Xen manual doesn't even mention NAT other than
in the sentence that says "other options are available".
 
Thanks for all your work!
Mito
 

  _____  

From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com
[mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Alan C. Oehler
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:46 PM
To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com; xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 3.0 User Manual revision
 
I'm the tech writer at XenSource and I'm planning to devote some energies to
improving the Xen User Manual. To that end, I'm eliciting feedback from the
community.

Please respond here on the list if you have any notions about how the manual
might be improved, and I'll collect and review the feedback, prioritize it,
and do all I can to move it forward.

* Is anything glaringly omitted from the manual that should be there?

* Are there any sections that are notably incomplete or lacking in clarity?

* Is the current organization of the material reasonable? If not, how would
you like to see it changed?

Thanks very much!

Regards,

Alan C. Oehler
Sr. Technical Writer
XenSource, Inc. 

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