Xen Community: I received some great feedback on my initial web design proposal and have updated the documents. Please look over these versions and pass along your comments Xen.org Home Page Content Sections: Xen.org Home Page II.pdf Xen.org Tab/Page Structure (diagram): Xen.org Web Structure
The Program Committee has discussed the choice of primary language for the upcoming event in Tokyo and has made a change from the information I posted last week. The event will now be in English with Japanese translators available to allow for a larger global audience to attend. IT events
To Xen API Project Members: I started looking at the Xen API code to see which API functions are not completed, as we discussed in our last meeting. I believe the correct file to search is at \tools\python\xen\xend and I looked at XendAPI.py. I found this
I recently read a ZDNet article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=479 about some issues being taken by Virtual Iron with Simon Crosby’s statements. My response to the article is added as a comment and I wanted to make the community aware of my position. I believe
(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 has completed the formation of a Program Committee and is actively looking for speakers interested in presenting their Xen work at this event. This 2-day event, November 20 & 21 at Fujitsu’s Labs, will be an in-depth examination of recent research, software development,
Xen.org Community: One of the major areas for improvement this quarter will be the update of the existing Xen.org website into something that delivers the information you need in a easier to use structure while also meeting the needs of various groups of users. Here is a link
Here is the first new “case study” from the new Xen Around the World Project. Scot Stevenson detailed a project to use Xen for the creation of a backup Time Machine server. Info from Scot: These are my notes on how I set up a Ubuntu Linux server at home
The day before Xen Summit in Boston a few weeks back, Xen.org hosted a Xen Training Day for attendees of the USENIX conference. 37 people attended a day long session about Xen which covered the basics of the Xen hypervisor as well as more complex subjects such as file
Xen Community: I am looking to build an online search tool that allows Xen customers/prospects to search for solutions using/based on Xen. The search tool would take the prospects to a web page with content maintained by the solution provider – open source or proprietary. I believe adding this
As part of my Xen Around the World Project, I am posting a Google Map for everyone to add a Placemark and comment on where you are using Xen. I have already added a few placemarks. Remember, the final goal is to see if Xen is being run in every
Ian Pratt spoke at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference a few weeks back in Boston. Here are the slides from that presentation. Talk overview: This is a talk in three parts. I’ll give a summary of the Xen story so far, looking at how Xen made the transition from
Yoshi Tamura from the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories in Japan gave a very interesting presentation on Kemari. Kemari is a new approach to cluster systems that synchronize VMs for fault tolerance without modifying neither hardware nor applications. Since virtualization puts an abstract layer between hardware and operating system, it also