I am pleased to announce the Xen 3.4.4 release, which is an update of the Xen 3.4.x series. This should be one of the most reliable releases since it is the latest maintenance release in the long term stable 3.4 branch that has had endured
Linux 3.2 Linux 3.2 was released on Jan 4th and compared to earlier kernel releases, this one was very focused on fixing bugs reported by the community. Thank you!! Issues that caused lots of bug reports were: * The xen-platform-pci module (used for HVM guest to enable PV drivers)
We are working on the 2012 event calendar, and are actively seeking feedback and sponsorship support for Xen to be well-represented at industry events. Xen will be represented at the following events in the next few months * SCALE10x, January 20-22, Los Angeles * FOSDEM, February 4-5, Bruxelles, BE * Oracle hosted Xen
I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by Oracle and takes place March 6-8, 2012 at the Oracle Campus in Santa Clara, CA, USA. If you want to attend, save the date and add yourself to the wiki. I wanted to thank Oracle
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of these projects are examples of standing on the shoulders of giants. * In 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge announced the plan
As I mentioned in the Xen Day post, Xen.org was offered a slot at the Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. The Build a Cloud attendees were great. They were very engaged and asked lots of questions. The questions gave me a chance to cover several Xen topics
It was a cloudy day in Boston last week as Xen.org hosted Xen Day Boston and CloudStack hosted Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. Xen Day First and foremost a big Thank You! to our Xen Day presenters: Patrick F. Wilbur, Steven Maresca, and Josh West. What a
We had a look at the documentation for Project Kronos, and decided that it needed some significant improvement, so there’s been a good deal of rewriting and restructuring. You’ll now find a Project Kronos main page, with an introduction to the project, and a set of pages linked
TripAdvisor.com, the world’s largest travel site, has donated access to their Xen Cloud Platform lab for the development of material for Xen Day! They have built a fault tolerant 20TB SAN from recycled hardware to support their XCP lab infrastructure, using technologies such as DRBD and Pacemaker.
Generated Xen Documentation As you may remember from the last two Xen Documentation Days, we looked at creating Xen documentation from source. This has now been implemented and * Xen Manual Pages * Auxiliary Pages to Man Pages * API and Protocol Documentation are available from the xen.org website as well as
Now that we’ve got a page with instructions for Kronos on Oneiric (XAPI on Ubuntu), I was wondering about ways to let the community know that things are progressing. I’ve started with the simple step of adding some detail to the Xen page on the Ubuntu Community Documentation
As a long-term Ubuntu (and, before that, Debian) user, I wanted to try Kronos to see how easy it was to get Xen running on a standard Oneiric box for someone who didn’t have – and didn’t want – the detailed knowledge of the guts of the thing. Working with