Xen FIT Survey Results
08/15/2008
Thanks for your responses on the Xen FIT Survey published recently. I am posting the results of the survey so everyone can see what the final opinions were. fit-survey-results.pdf
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Xen security research results presented
08/14/2008
Joana Rutkowska and her team presented very interesting insights on Xen security, as well as attacks against it, at this years Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. In a trilogy of talks(“Xen 0wning trilogy”), they gave information about “Subverting the Xen Hypervisor”, “Detecting and preventing the Xen hypervisor subversions”
New Project: Ganeti
08/13/2008
We have added a new project to the projects page: Ganeti Ganeti is a tool for the management of Virtualization clusters. It offers very easy management of systems with multiple virtualization servers and deployment of instances on these. It includes user-transparent setup of mirrored disks for these nodes with DRBD,
XenAccess Projects Gets Wider Promotion
08/13/2008
Just ran across a nice posting on the Georgia Tech project on Matt Asay’ “The Open Road” Blog. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10015925-16.html More info on this project on my previous blog posting at https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/08/08/new-project-xenaccess-library/.
Xen Training at LISA 08
08/12/2008
The Clarkson University team is once again leading the efforts for a full day of Xen training at Lisa 2008; http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/.The full profile of the training is here: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/tutonefile.html#m1. Lisa event home page at
IBM Announces Open-OVF Project
08/12/2008
Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility. Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and
Xen Documentation Assistance Update
08/12/2008
I have created a new page on the Xen Wiki where anyone wishing to post change requests to the Xen Documentation can do so: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. If anyone makes any of these changes, please update the Wiki so people know what has been completed and
Xen Documentation Assistance
08/11/2008
I often receive emails asking about the documentation for Xen and wanting to see an upgrade, etc. The latest documentation that I am aware of is at this page: http://xen.org/xen/documentation.html The Xen 3.0 documentation is out of date, as I often get told, and
UM Research using Xen
08/11/2008
Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
Amazon EC2 Review
08/11/2008
 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
Xen API Project Update
08/11/2008
To Xen API folks: I see that Josh West has added some feature requests to the Wiki (see list below). Also, I have posted some API functions that appear to be not written yet. I have not gotten any feedback so I guess I have a good list. So next
Brandeis University Case Study Published
08/08/2008
Brandeis University has been leveraging Xen for the deployment of their PeopleSoft applications. Read about their solution in the newest Xen.org Case Study at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Xen+Brandeis+Case+Study.pdf.