I am adding two more weeks for open submissions of topics for Xen Summit Boston. May 16 will be the official close of topic submissions so the Program Committee can create the final agenda. Please send your topic request to stephen.spector@xen.org with a brief abstract and title.
Several community members have contacted me recently about the Xen-API utilities. I looked into this and discovered a great opportunity for community members looking for a project to contribute to. So, I am announcing a new community effort to complete the development of the Xen-API utilities. If you are interested
Xen.org proudly releases two new versions of the product: Xen 3.2.1 and Xen 3.1.4 You can get all released versions of the Xen hypervisor at Xen Archive Page.
As the tittle says Running Xen: A Hands-on Guide to the Art of Virtualization is now available to buy, physically of course. So, if you want a copy just follow this link to find out how to get it. There’s also a complementary website where you can find information
The Xen Summit Program Committee is actively reviewing all the submitted topics for this event (we still want more topics – send to Stephen Spector) and I wanted to make everyone aware of a proposed agenda for the event along with some topics already approved. The proposed agenda, current topics, and
Ian Pratt gave the Keynote address at the USENIX NSDI 2008 event last week. Here is a link to the USENIX NSDI site: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/tech.html. Ian’s slides are available in pdf (ian-nsdi-keynote-apr2008.pdf). I don’t know if a video was taken
Xen.org Community: The mailing lists are having problems as the server they use is not working correctly. The team in the UK is aware of the issue and is actively working on a solution. April 22: The servers are now up and working properly (details in my comment below)
Prentice Hall has released a sample chapter from the book Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187966. Some of the book’s authors will be leading the Xen workshop at USENIX Technical Conference in Boston and possibly
The current Xen.org website has done a nice job of allowing people in the community access to the source code, released builds, documentation, mailing lists, etc; however, I believe that Xen.org can be transformed into a vital information repository for the Xen community leveraging the latest in web
For those of you who love legal discussions and believe that Software Patents should be dissolved, here is some information I received today. NOTE – My posting of this information does not imply my agreement with nor disagreement with the concept; just found this interesting. BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — April 8, 2008
I often receive email from people asking questions that typically end up being sent to xen-users for a quick response. I wanted to remind people that we have a great search utility at http://xen.markmail.org that will search every xen mailing list email sent since the mailing lists
As the Xen.org community manager, I felt it was worth my time to install Xen on a machine to learn more about how it works and what it takes to install. I am sharing my experience with the community, especially for people looking at Xen for the first time.