I received an invitation to have Xen sponsor a booth at the OSBC 2009 conference in San Francisco. I attended this event earlier in the year, my notes are here, and would like to see if anyone is interested in participating as part of the Xen booth. My thinking is
Xen Community: I am getting ready to start development of the Xen Solution Search Tool that will be a part of the new Xen.org site. This tool will allow customers to easily search and find a variety of solutions from companies and individuals providing services and products based on
To help drive attendance and awareness of the Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) event at Fujitsu we are doing a 2 month advertisement on the well read virtualization.info Japanese site to drive prospects to an information page at http://www.xen.org/xensummit_japan.html. If you are thinking
Xen 3.2.2, a maintenance release in the Xen 3.2 branch, is now available for download! Sources can be obtained as follows: http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.2-testing.hg (mercurial repository) http://www.xen.org/download/index_3.2.2.html (source tarball)
On the new home page of Xen.org, we have a section “Xen in the Industry.” This section has slides and audio/video from Ian Pratt and Simon Crosby presentations at various events. As this is an open community, I want to make sure that everyone is able to submit
For those of you with calendars reaching into 2009, please reserve February 24 – 25 for the first Xen Summit 0f 2009 hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA. We are actively putting the schedule together for this event and will be calling for volunteers to work on the Program Committee
The new website is live; please send me any problems you find so I can make fixes. Current Issues: 1) The Wiki did not transfer over to the new look & feel – not sure why but looking into it 2) The Mailing Lists registration page for a new user has
Project Snowflock is now available to the general public. We’re making a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock. Briefly, Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different
The Xen.org community will again be running a full day training session at an upcoming USENIX Event – LISA ’08. For those of you going to event or looking for a hands on approach to Xen training, the community will be hosting the following training session on Monday November 10th
For those of you who have not looked over the changes to the www.xen.org website, please take a look as I plan to switch to the new site this weekend or early next week. If you have any comments, please let me know. Test Site: http://staging.xen.
One of the notable features of Xen 3.3 is to incorporate full support for processor power management features, C-states and P-states. Power management is getting more crucial not only for clients, but also for servers. C/P is from ACPI nomenclature which stand for different set of power/thermal
Next week I will be part of a panel on virtualization at an HP event in NY for financial CIOs. The panel is focused on these topics about open source software and virtualization, listed below. If you have any thoughts that you would like expressed by me at this