After coffee, breakfast and introductions the Xen hackathon went into full swing. 26 people from a different companies, universities and countries attended the event. Lots of discussion on project ideas, working on code and on specific problems took place. Some of my personal highlights were: * Demo of the Linpicker display

A few minutes ago, Google published the list of mentoring organisations for GSoC 2011. I am pleased to let you know that Xen.org has again been accepted this year. We already had a lot of interest from students and also have a list of interesting projects. Here is some

In the last few weeks, we have been putting a draft plan in place to rejuvenate the Xen.org website. In preparation for this, I have reviewed the content on the site, sifted through Google Analytics data, run orphaned page checkers and link checkers and realized that the site

This a guest post by Colin Dean, author of XVP, the set of free open source tools for administering VMs running on Xen Cloud Platform and XenServer.  Colin has been writing system level software, especially client-server based tools, for a variety of OS platforms, since the late 1980s.Â

After 16 months of development, Xen.org is proud to present the first full version of the Xen Cloud Platform. We wanted to thank the project team, who made this happen. A full feature list as well as the install image and source packages can be found on the download

I just wanted to give a quick update on how preparations for the Xen Hackathon in Cambridge are progressing. We are almost full, so if you did want to attend but have not told us yet, please get in touch with Ian Campbell as quickly as possible. The format will

This is a guest post by David Noe,  founder of stacklet.com. David explains how Stackfactory – the GPL tool used to build images – works and how others may benefit. Stackfactory is a GPL tool used to create filesystems and disk images, complete operating systems ready to run on a

Dear users! We had a serious hardware failure at the facility that we use to host xen.org and xebits.xen.org, which has been exacerbated due to a holiday in the US yesterday. We are working on resolving these and update you as soon as there is a change.

Just a brief note that to say that the unstable development repositories for XCP are moving to GitHub to the following URLs: * github.com/xen-org/xen-api * github.com/xen-org/xen-api-libs The stable source trees for XCP will remain unchanged: the same is true for the patch queues for upstream XCP

Two weeks ago, Google has announced the 2011 Google Summer of Code program. As last year, Xen.org will apply to join the Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation. The program will be administered by Lars Kurth. More information on project ideas and the program is published on the

by Lars Kurth A week ago, I started as Community Manager for Xen.org. I spent last week getting up-to-speed on the basics and feel that now it is time for a quick introduction. I have worked as part of and with various open source communities for 9 years now.