I am pleased to announce that we have over 50 people registered for Xen Summit Boston with attendees coming from 7 countries - India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, UK,…
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I read a blog posting on the web today at zdnet with comments from Ian about Xen and KVM. I don't normally post any type of "political" thoughts on this…
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The kickoff meeting for the Xen-API community project is scheduled for May 15, 2008 at 4pm EST. I am still looking for people interested in working on this project and…
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linuxsymposium 2008, Ottawa, Canada, July 23 – July 26, 2008 http://www.linuxsymposium.org The intent of the Virtualization MiniSummit is to provide a forum for attendees to explore all aspects of…
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For those of you tracking my "History of Xen" blog series, I am proud to announce that we finally have the story of where "Xen" came from - check out…
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A new email has been established for anyone finding a security issue with any Xen build. Please send a detailed email of the problem to security@xen.org. This email distribution reaches…
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I am adding two more weeks for open submissions of topics for Xen Summit Boston. May 16 will be the official close of topic submissions so the Program Committee can…
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Several community members have contacted me recently about the Xen-API utilities. I looked into this and discovered a great opportunity for community members looking for a project to contribute to.…
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Xen.org proudly releases two new versions of the product: Xen 3.2.1 and Xen 3.1.4 You can get all released versions of the Xen hypervisor at Xen Archive Page.
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The Xen Summit Program Committee is actively reviewing all the submitted topics for this event (we still want more topics - send to Stephen Spector) and I wanted to make…
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Ian Pratt gave the Keynote address at the USENIX NSDI 2008 event last week. Here is a link to the USENIX NSDI site: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/tech.html. Ian's slides are available in pdf…
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Xen.org Community: The mailing lists are having problems as the server they use is not working correctly. The team in the UK is aware of the issue and is actively…
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Prentice Hall has released a sample chapter from the book Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187966. Some of the book's authors will be leading…
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The current Xen.org website has done a nice job of allowing people in the community access to the source code, released builds, documentation, mailing lists, etc; however, I believe that…
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For those of you who love legal discussions and believe that Software Patents should be dissolved, here is some information I received today. NOTE - My posting of this information…
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I often receive email from people asking questions that typically end up being sent to xen-users for a quick response. I wanted to remind people that we have a great…
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As the Xen.org community manager, I felt it was worth my time to install Xen on a machine to learn more about how it works and what it takes to…
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As part of Xen Summit being co-located with the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston, Xen.org is hosting a 1 day training session on the Xen hypervisor. Thanks to everyone…
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Xen.org Community: The newly created Xen.org Trademark Policy is now available for review from the Xen Advisory Board. This new policy defines the rules of how the Xen trademark can…
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Here is a link to a great blog posting containing a video called "Revolution OS - A History of Open Source" Â Â http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/23/revolution-os-history-of-open-source/. For those of you wanting to learn…
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The Xen Summit Boston 2008 registration site is live at https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/xen08/reg.cgi. The event is held over two days, June 23 - 24 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and a $75…
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At OSBC 2008, I met with people who are running the Open Source Census Project which is an attempt to collect all the data on which open source technology is…
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I am back from the OSBC 2008 event in San Francisco and wanted to share my notes from the sessions I attended as well as some thoughts on the overall…
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Henning Sprang, Mark Williamson, and I discussed the issue of people reporting bugs in the Bugzilla system with no guarantee that anyone was watching or working on the Bugzilla system.…
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The final installment of the History of Xen - Architecture involves the ultimate question, where does the name "Xen" come from? It is clear that Xen comes from the XenoServer…
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