After the last Xen Document Day, many people asked me when we would do another document day. After a discussion on the mailing list, we settled on next Tuesday (November 29). This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including
A quick reminder that Xen.org is helping to run the Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil, tommrrow and Friday. We are doing this in partnership with Citrix, Dell and Rackspace. For users of Xen, a number of interesting things will happen: * I will give a status update on PVOPS, the
Xen.org excited to host Xen Day 2011 in Boston. Xen Day is co-located with USENIX LISA ’11. The Xen Day activities will be broken up into a series of units, which will include hands-on tutorials, interactive sessions, and training on topics ranging from Xen and XCP to cloud computing
Rackspace Hosting has offered the Xen.org community to host xen.org services. We have started migration last week and the expectation is that all services will be migrated by Nov the 21st. Most services will be migrated with little impact on our users. Where there is an impact, there
Many users have been asking a bit about the internals of the authentication mechanisms in XCP and XAPI, and how to add extra users, so I thought I should talk a bit about it. Just after installation, XCP allows only root to log in, since by default this is the
XenSummit Asia is over. I uploaded all slides onto slideshare. The videos will still take a while and will follow later. In the meantime a photo collage from Day 2 will have to be enough for now. Thank you again for to our sponsors, the speakers and the audience.
The XenSummit banquet has just finished. Not much time to put a blog post together, but I wanted to share a quick photo collage with you. Thank you all for such a good day, and a thank you to our sponsors, the speakers and the great audience. P.S.: The
Only a few days to go to XenSummit Asia: the event is shaping up to be great. I wanted to thank our sponsors and hosts for helping make XenSummit Asia happen. Sponsors of the event are: Samsung Electronics, University of Korea, kt and GitHub. Due to the additional support, we
I wanted to thank everybody who has contributed to the Xen Document Day yesterday. We had about 15-20 participants at any given time duting the day, which is great. We made some progress in some areas: but more needs to be done. Some areas of work, where progress was made:
The Xen.org and OpenNebula.org open source communities are working together to add XCP support to OpenNebula. This collaboration will produce the  OpenNebula Toolkit for XCP, which will be hosted as freely available open source project on OpenNebula.org. The XCP project team and Xen.org community will
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of the Xen releases 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 from the active stable branches. Note that these are source releases. Fixes/features include: * New XL toolstack * Debug support: kexec/kdump * Remus (High Availability) * Device passthrough to HVM guests * Interrupt
On October 26th, the Xen Developers will facilitate the first Xen Document Day. This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, etc. * Improve important wiki pages: this means fixing important pages, retiring old ones,