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
(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored by Fujitsu is fast approaching and I am calling for Program Committee volunteers interested in reviewing all submitted topics and creating the event agenda. I hope to have at least 7 people on the Program Committee for this event so if you are interested,
I have just created a new page on Xen.org to list active projects within the community – http://www.xen.org/about/projects.html. Please visit the page and email me any other projects that you are aware of so we can have a complete list. There is contact information
 For those of you who could not attend today’s meeting on the Xen API Project; here are links to relevant information: * Meeting Minutes are in the Xen Wiki API Project Page at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi. * Next section in the wiki to identify APIs that need
Aron Giffis from HP has been helping me with the Xen Wiki and has created a great update to the Wiki to improve the css stylesheet. You can see his proposed update at http://userstyles.org/styles/8431. I am in the process of updating the stylesheets to implement this
There has been some recent blog postings around about the death of Xen; very amusing to read…Simon Crosby responds to these blogs in his typical manner at http://community.citrix.com/display/~simoncr/2008/07/02/Xen+is+Dead!+Long+Live+Xen!. As the blog postings also relate to
The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2, 2008 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm EST 1.888.371.8921 Int’l: http://www.btconferencing.com/citrix/globalaccess/
Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly
Netronome presented two interesting topics at Xen Summit: Derek McAuley: Virtualization in Network Appliances (slides to be posted soon) & Rolf Neugebauer: Network Topology Offload They also published a press release if you want more information: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/netronome-to-share-vision-for,442778.shtml
I have updated the Xen.org site and created a new Xen Summit Boston page: http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2008.html I am still collecting presentation slides and converting them to pdf so not everything is live yet. I will also be adding the videos of the
Here are some more pictures from Day 2… Â http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/