Over the next few days I will be putting out highlights from this year’s Xen Summit in Boston. Many interesting projects, concepts, and “Xen deployments” were presented and I want to share some of these with you. I will also be setting up a new page on Xen.org
Lots of information from Xen Summit is coming…in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr/2008/06/23/XenSummit+2008+Boston+-+Day+1
Interview with Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur who are leading the Xen training class on Sunday at USENIX. http://blogs.usenix.org/atc08/?p=8
If you have the time today, you can help the Firefox folks set a record: Firefox 3 is here! Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours and download Firefox today.
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/
For those of you coming to Xen Summit next week, I have created a short overview document with information on event check-in, local restaurants, etc. The file can be found in the Xen.org Wiki.
From Clarkson University, http://web2.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2028. Also, the Xen training day session for USENIX is the second most registered for class at USENIX Technical Conference; we are only 1 person behind the most registered for class so I expect it to be a photo
Here are three links to a recent Ian Pratt interview with Virtualization.com: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
Quick update for those of you following the Xen API Community project – I am close to having a Xen developer from Citrix confirmed for our next meeting to answer questions about the API specifications. Since Xen Summit is coming up, I am planning on having this 2nd project meeting the
128 people are now registered for Xen Summit in 2 weeks and I look forward to meeting with everyone in Boston. As a reminder, online registration will close next Monday, June 16 at noon (PDT). All registration after that time will be onsite beginning Saturday, June 21, 5-7pm and then
Congrats to the authors of Running Xen for having a book review on slashdot… http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/06/09/1413220.shtml
Here it is, the final (is it every final) Xen Summit Boston Agenda along with a separate document containing the topic abstracts. xensummit_agenda.pdf xensummit_presentationtopics.pdf Extended abstracts on topics being presented at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Open_Topics_For_Discussion. A big thanks for the incredible