Xen Document Days/TODO

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Requested Documentation

Big work items

• Feature status docs for end-users showing which features are expected to work in 4.0 and, possibly 4.1.2. Most people don't know if Feature X is even supposed to work on the Xen build their distro uses. And almost everything is broken somewhere! This is tricky since 4.0 (debian) still has rough edges like immediate panic when doing mem-set on a HV domU by mistake
• A Xen/XCP Overview which explains the top level architectural features and options, trade-offs and links to examples tutorials that show how you set these up
• A Xen Tuning Guide: different options in Xen impacting performance, how to set them up, how to tune
• A Xen Security Guide : The different options in Xen for Security, trade-offs, how to set them up, how to test Xen for security and how to optimize for different scenarios
• User Docs that where migrating content would make sense and update such as (we can attach PDF's to the wiki now for starters, or we can use a conversion tool
  • http://bits.xensource.com/Xen/docs/user.pdf
  • Resolved: http://www.rites.uic.edu/~solworth/xenInterfaceManual.pdf (ijc - this link is dead but this is interface.tex which used to live in the hypervisor tree and is now covered by the in-tree headers docs)

In progress:

• An Overview over Xen for people who do not yet use Xen, to help them make a decision on whether Xen is for them (aka "Why Xen" and "Which Xen") (be sure to mention "fastest" ;) - Lars Kurth is working on this

Categories

• Review the Debian and Openstack categories and add documentation that exists in other places.
• Installation Guides
  • ijc: How to install on various distros. Tag with "Category:Host Install". We seem to only have one or two of these but I thought we had more. Perhaps need to link to external sites (e.g. distro wikis/docs)

Admin docs

• Setting boot order for domUs (PV and HVM)
• Chaining pypxeboot and pygrub (pypxeboot == tools/misc/xenpvnetboot? -- ijc)
• xenpm usage recommendations
• setting up vnc mime magic for xen in firefox (oracle has srpms for a vnc client plugin)
• vcpu pinning
• using xm trigger to poweroff or firing off NMIs

Developer Docs

Docs that need attention or are missing

• Make XAPI docs (built from source) available on xen.org
• PVOPS portal on xen.org - Konrad volunteered
• some more xenstore docs (i.e. recent python bindings that were sent to the -users list
• Using libxenstat python bindings (imo they're broken)
• More PV protocol docs (see recent patches to blkif.h for example)
• Document xenstore paths used by guests and toolstack etc

Docs for distro packagers

List i.e. stuff what to test after packaging. This would avoid the current state of affairs where most distros are infact broken w/re to Xen.

Wiki Maintenance

Fix artcles that need attention

• - Pages that need fixing
• - Pages that need formatting
• Special:WantedPages - Missing pages (many may just need to be migrated), some may be obsolete

Review Categorization

We need to go through some of the categies on the http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page and decise whether there are documents in each category that need to be highlighted in a trail, etc.

Loose ends on migration

• Migrate remaining wiki pages (see Wiki_Community/Migration_Instructions_from_Old_to_New_Xen_Wiki)