The XCP team would like to announce that, after a long time in beta, we’ve released XCP 1.1 RC1, which we hope will become our final release. Here is a list of issues that we’ve resolved since the beta release: * The license expiry bug has been resolved.
For those of you who have not noticed, Xen.org has now a jobs page and we made changes to the Wiki main page. Jobs Page We created a community jobs page, where companies that are active in the community can post job offerings. Jobs listed on this page are
One of the fun things about a hackathon is the chance to get everyone together in a room and just talk about crazy ideas you might try at some point in the future. One of the advantage that a certain competing virtualization technology has over Xen is that you don’
It is day 3 of the Munich Hackathon and I wanted to thank Fujitsu and Jürgen Groß for hosting and organizing the event, as well as the social activities in the evening. Besides the coding, networking and getting to know each other which is always a key part of
As you may know, Fedora 16 will have full Xen support for Dom0 and DomU in it. Fedora is planning a number of test days as part of their release cycle, including a Virtualization Test on September 15th this year, which is tomorrow. We are calling our community members to
Congratulations to the Xen.org community for winning the 2011 BOSSIE Award in the Data Center and Cloud Software category. BOSSIE Awards are given to the best open source software in several categories. The first BOSSIE Awards were announced in September 2007 and the awards are adjudged by the Infoworld
As I mentioned last week, I started to make some changes to the Xen.org web site and associated sites. The most significant changes are * The News menu now goes directly to the blog (I will rename the menu later this week), whereas the news feed which was on that
Because of popular demand we have made available images and vector graphics of the Xen mascot, related images and templates. You can download images from the new logos page on xen.org under a creative commons license. The intention is that members in the Xen community can use the images
Konrad and I have been representing Xen at KVM Forum and LinuxCon 2011 last week. First of all I want to thanks Alexander Graf, Anthony Liguori and all the other members of the KVM community for the warm welcome and fruitful collaboration on many hot topics about virtualization. KVM and
The talk submission system for Xen Summit Asia, held Nov 2-3 in Seoul, Korea is now open for for anyone interested in speaking this year. All speakers are required to submit their topic by Sept 16th, 2011 using the online tool or by e-mailing community.manager@xen.org. All submitted
Just a quick reminder that it is only 4 weeks to the Xen Hackathon in Munich, hosted by Fujitsu from Sept 13-15. There are still a few places free: if you plan to attend, do make sure to book your flights and hotels soon as the Oktoberfest begins on Sept
XenSummit NA Material Just a quick note to say that I started posting the XenSummit presentations and videos on the XenSummit page. Almost all presentations are posted and can conveniently be downloaded via a zip file. The missing ones will follow later (in some cases approval is needed). The recordings