Based on the 2010 Annual Xen.org Survey I intend to take several actions to address the significant issues raised by the community. I plan to start with the Xen.org Wiki (http://wiki.xensource.com) and look at a better layout to simplify navigation for new and experienced Wiki
The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg
For those of you living or visiting Slovenia in late September, I recommend attending the Poslovna Linux Konferenca in Sept 27-28, 2010 in Portoroz. George Dunlap will be presenting the following: Title: Xen – Open Source and the Virtualization Revolution Summary: This talk will introduce the virtualization revolution, showing how virtual
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen.org Annual Community Survey Completed – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/ * Xen
Next week I will be travelling in time to work 5 hours ahead of my usual Eastern Standard Time. During the next three weeks I will magically accomplish all my tasks 5 hours earlier than I normally do. Please keep this time travel in mind when contacting me over the
As you know, there is interest in having the first Xen Summit in 2011 in Europe instead of North America. To get a better sense of what the community would like I created two surveys. An open full community survey still running at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/309833/Xen-Summit-2011-Event-Location-Survey
Day 2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest was much less crowded at the booth than Day 1 as Fedora held a community day and Drupal held a camp all day which kept the crowds busy. I did take some video of the event with a brief tour of the sponsor tables
Day 1 of the SouthEast LinuxFest is over and I thought the community might like a recap of today’s activities: * Presented the Xen.org history, mission, various technologies, and ways to join our effort to a filled room of about 115 people ; there were a number of good questions
The first release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html XCP-0.5 is intended to be a *stable* release, suitable for long-term production use. Please download this release candidate and give
From Chris Smowton on xen-devel… About 4-5 months ago, I wrote some userland libraries to go against James Harper’s PV drivers for Windows Xen guests (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). These provide a Xenstore, event channel and userland page granting interface very similar to those provided to Linux
Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen.org Annual Community Survey Completed – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/ * Xen
The new Xen.org mascot has received many positive responses from within the community and I am pleased with the reaction as it took a few months and the longer a project like this lasts, the more you worry. Anyway, now that we have a mascot, do we need a