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New Xen Book in Chinese - System Virtualization – Theory & Implementation
04/01/2009

From the Intel R&D team in Shanghai, comes a new Xen book called System Virtualization – Theory & Implementation (in Chinese). Purchase here http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp?qid=1238548707&ref=SR&sr=13-21&uid=168-9160515-3593824&prodid=bkbk939920

Hosted Xen Project (HXen) Available
04/01/2009

The initial public release of the Hosted Xen project (HXen) is now available. HXen lets you run the Xen core as a Type-2 VMM, on top of a regular operating system. This release supports 32-bit Windows XP, Vista and Win7 as the host operating system. This release uses a snapshot

Linux Magazine Brazil Article on Xen & Citrix
03/31/2009

Simon Crosby, CTO of Citrix Virtualization Division and I did an interview with Linux Magazine Brazil. The final article is at http://linuxmagazine.uol.com.br/images/uploads/pdf_aberto/LM_52_24_27_04_corp_citrix.pdf. The article is in Portuguese but translates fairly well with online tools.

Xen.org Events - Final Proposal to Community
03/31/2009

Xen Community: In a follow-up to my previous event posting to the community, https://xenproject.org/index.php/2009/03/19/xen-summit-events-open-discussion/here is a final proposal for our yearly meetings. Please let me know if you have any additional feedback or thoughts. Xen Summit I am planning to host

Status of XenFS
03/26/2009

When I checked back on this post something appeared to have broken; I’m blaming Firefox somehow playing badly with the WordPress web interface.  Hopefully the problems are now fixed and the article will be visible.  Sorry about that. Now and again, I get e-mails asking me about

Xen.org Brochure Available
03/26/2009

The new Xen Champions community and I have been working on a new 2 Page Xen.org brochure that can be used at events, meetings, etc where you want to have a handout about the community and technology. The attached pdf is the final result of that work; however, community

Training Videos for Xen Community
03/25/2009

During my daily xen mailing list review and tracking (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/March_27%2C_2009) I have noticed that many people are having problems with compiling or launching domains that are usually similar in nature. I also had a conversation yesterday with some people about using open

Citrix Project Satori Announced
03/24/2009

Citrix Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems. The base Satori components are released by Microsoft as the Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V, and provide support for paravirtualized XenLinux guests running on Hyper-V.

Xen 3.4 Feature Request List
03/23/2009

As the community begins the work to close down Xen 3.4 and finalize testing, I would like to reach out to the developers who have written new features or improved existing services so I can get a complete feature update list and start working on creating short blog entries

Launch DomU from Jailtime.org Images
03/23/2009

In the third posting on my explorations with Xen 3.3.1, I am going to highlight the steps I followed and problems I had when launching several pre-built DomU images from jailtime.org. 1) I downloaded three DomU images from Jailtime.org – Debian, Fedora, & Slackware . NOTE: Make sure

Save the Date for Future Xen Summit
03/20/2009

Xen Community: The 2nd Xen Summit Asia event is now set in Shanghai, China on November 19-20, 2009 at the Intel R&D facility. Please mark your calendars now so you can keep the possibility of attending open. We are early in the planning phase but stay tuned for