Since the first Xen Hackathon in Cambridge this year, I have been asked a few times whether we will be organizing another Hackathon this year. The short answer is yes! Fujitsu will host the next Xen Hackathon in Munich. The Hackathon will take place September 13-15, 2011 (the week before
Last week I was at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest. The best news is: the next release of Ubuntu, oneiric ocelot, will have dom0-capable kernels in main and Xen (4.1, very likely) hypervisor/tools in universe. The plan is to have the hypervisor and tools in main in
This is a guest blog post by Daniel Castro, one of our Google Summer of Code students. We will aim to publish a GSoC student introduction every Monday. Later in the year, we will publish project updates. My Name is Daniel Castro, from Bogota Colombia. I have been accepted into
My name is Anthony Perard and I have been working on up-streaming Xen patches to the QEMU mainline. The good news is that the bulk of the changes for Xen are in the QEMU mainline as of yesterday. Let me begin a year ago, when I started working on this
One of the objectives that I was given, when I started as Xen.org community manager was to learn about the unwritten rules of how Xen.org governance works, write them down and make some improvement proposals. At this point, I wanted to present my findings and also make an
This is a guest blog post by Jiageng Yu, one of our Google Summer of Code students. This will be the first of a series of posts by our students. I am Jiageng Yu, a PHD candidate of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. My research areas
Last week I was at the OpenStack Conference and Design summit: I thought I would share a quick report of what I found cool and interesting. Obviously this won’t be a complete picture and the report is my personal opinion. Before I do this though, I wanted to remind
Google just announced the Google Summer of code students for 2011 and I wanted to take this as an opportunity to briefly introduce our students and their projects. We had 30 students applying for Xen projects: for some projects we had up to 5 students competing with each other. This
Xen.org is pleased to announce this year’s XenSummit, North America. The Summit is sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Citrix and will take place in Santa Clara, CA from Aug 2-3. More information such a exact location, information on hotels, agenda and registration will follow. We are also
A brief note to let you know that Xen.org will be at OSCON this year. OSCON is from July 25 – 29, 2011 in Portland, Oregon, USA. We will have a booth at OSCON. OpenStack and Xen also made a collaborative submission for a talk called “Achieving Hybrid Cloud Mobility
A few minutes ago the GSoC application deadline for students has passed. I thought I’d give a quick update of where we are at. But first of all I wanted to thank our 13 mentors from across the Xen developer community for working closely with students intending to apply.
After 11 months of development and 1906 commits later (6 a day !!!), Xen.org is proud to present its new stable Xen 4.1 release. We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank the 102 individuals and 25 organisations who have contributed to the Xen codebase and the 60