Here are some highlights of Keir Fraser’s presentation at Xen Summit: * Current Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.1 and Xen 3.2.3 (Jan 09) * Next Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.2 and Xen 3.4.0 (late March 09) Xen Development Process Update – * Use xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
From Ian Pratt’s presentation at Xen Summit;Â here are some highlights: * Xen Embedded – small footprint Xen (see xenbits.xen.org/xenclient) * Xen Client – Citrix code being placed in Xen-unstable * Hosted Xen – Xen engine run as a kernel module to enable hosted (type-2) VMM; Windows and OSX in active
Wim Coekaerts is the Xen Advisory Board member representing Oracle and was recently interviewed about Oracle , Xen, and Open Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBitsource/~3/dfCM1y510Pc/
The slides and videos from the Xen Summit at Oracle event are now available at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_winter_2009.html. I have a few more slides to collect but wanted to get everything I had out to the community. If you find an issue with a
I have spoken with several community members today at Xen Summit and they have great project ideas for Xen but not enough time to work on them. I am also aware that many university students are looking for research projects for their masters or phd work and would like to
For community members not able to attend today, here are some highlights from the event: Ian Pratt opening presentation: http://www.xen.org/media/Movies/XenSummitOracle09/Day1/IanPratt.AVI (NOTE – I had video problems so this video missed the standard introduction and hello, sorry about that). Keir Fraser project update:
4th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC’09) – http://markmail.org/thread/2nzdt6p3apd7b7yn ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC’09 as part of Euro-Par 2009, Delft, The Netherlands ================================================================= Date: August 25, 2009 Euro-Par 2009: http://europar2009.ewi.tudelft.nl/ Workshop URL: http:
From Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro in Xen-Devel (http://markmail.org/thread/2t2cbfjkxz6awnzu): I’m happy to announce everyone that is available a newer version of the Xen Live CD, the version 2.0. It’s entirely based on latest version of the stable Debian, the recently released 5.0. The
My recent Podcast with Doug Brown of Dabcc.com Radio is live at http://dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=9968. I do my best to promote the community and the many ways that people can get involved beyond being a developer.
In the second posting on my explorations with Xen 3.3.1, I am going to highlight the steps I followed and problems I had when launching a simple pre-built DomU image. Like my compiling Xen post – this is not for regular Xen users but for people thinking of trying
From Simon Crosby’s Citrix blog posting We’ve Open Sourced Our Optimized VHD Support: Today Dutch Meyer of UBC, and Jake Wires of the Citrix XenServer storage team in Vancouver submitted our implementation of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in
The Virtualisation and cloud track of Open Source India Tech Days (www.osidays.com) is scheduled for March 13, 2009 (at Chennai). We’re planning panel discussions where we’d like Xen to participate, besides looking for a presentation on Xen as to what are the latest features, et al.