Xen Community: The Xen.org merchandise store is now available at http://www.cafepress.com/xen_org for your Xen shirts, hats, jackets, dog bowls, etc. The store is set at CafePress cost so any items you order are paid directly to CafePress to cover their printing and shipping costs.
There has been a great deal of developer discussion lately around the proposed patches to extend the Linux kernel’s existing Xen support to include control domain capabilities (loosely known as “the dom0 patches”). These discussions are generating a great deal of interest in Xen and Linux so I thought
From Keir on xen-devel: The first release candidate for Xen 3.4.1 is tagged as 3.4.1-rc1 at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg Quite a few important fixes have been made since 3.4.0. Please test and let’s get this one out quickly!
With my current access to some of the Xen.org developers here in Cambridge, UK I am planning to do a series of short (10 minutes) video interviews to learn more about the people behind Xen. I am putting together a series of questions for these interviews and would like
The GlusterFS team is currently trying to understand more about GlusterFS deployments with Xen. We are looking at feedback from users of the same. We are interested in knowing the following: 1) How many servers (Real and Virtual) do you use in the deployment? 2) What versions of operating systems/
The Japanese software project Karesansui has released the first version of its open source software. The Web console allows management of virtual systems under Xen. Karesansui provides creation of virtual guests and starting, suspending and shutting down the VM. It also takes snapshots and assigns CPU and RAM resources. Rest
From xen-devel: I am pleased to announce the release of GUK (Project Guest VM Microkernel), which is an enhanced version of Mini-OS that underpins the Guest VM virtual machine. Guest VM is an implementation of the Java platform, written almost completely in Java, running directly on Xen. Although GUK was
From Keir in Xen-Devel: ‘3.3.2-rc1’ is now tagged in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg Please test!
After much thought and contemplation (and lots of VISA paperwork), I have decided to take a 2 month break from the hot, humid summers of South Florida for the anticipated lovely weather in the UK. I will continue to update the xen-users and xen-devel messages on the Xen Weekly Wiki
The recent Xen.org community survey showed that 23.6% of you are aware of my Twitter feed on all things Xen. As I feel that Twitter is a valuable tool for the community, I thought I would present some more information on how I am using Twitter and what
The fist release of the xen-users commonly asked questions guide is now available on the Xen.org website at http://xen.org/files/Support/XenUsersCommonlyAskedQuestions.pdf. Of course, this is a document in continuous change so please send any updates to this blog post or to me for document update.
Thanks to Todd Deshane for linking me to Stacklet (http://stacklet.com), a repository for Xen DomU Images. The site currently has images for CentOS 5.3, Debian (Lenny), Fedora 10, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware, and Ubuntu 9.04. There is also a forum associated with the site if you