Xen.org Mailings Lists Down
04/16/2010
My apologies, but it appears the mailing lists are having issues. I have asked IT to take a look at the issue and get them up and running again.
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Xen 4.0 Feature List
04/13/2010
Here is the complete Xen 4.0 feature list: * Better performance and scalability: 128 vcpus per guest, 1 TB of RAM per host, 128 physical CPUs per host (as a default, can be compile-time increased to lots more). * blktap2 for VHD image support, including high-performance snapshots and cloning. Wiki link:
Xen.org Announces Xen 4.0 Availability
04/13/2010
CAMBRIDGE, UK » 4/13/2010 » Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen® hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen 4.0, the most advanced open source hypervisor software available. The release is the collective effort of a global development team representing more than 50 leading technology
Xen.org Mascot Contest - Vote for your favorite
04/12/2010
Xen Community: Welcome to the final voting in the Xen.org Mascot Contest. The three final ideas: Bonsai Tree, Panda, and Zen Penguin have all been converted to some concept images to better help you visualize the concepts. Once a winner is chosen, the community can provide input to the
Xen Summit North America at AMD - Agenda Announced
04/12/2010
The final (or just about final) agenda for Xen Summit North America at AMD is now available. The agenda has 26 presentations over 2 days (April 28-29) and provides attendees with a variety of topics of interest to the Xen.org community. Speaker profiles and topic abstracts are also now
Xen.org Weekly Newsletter Vol 10 No 14
04/09/2010
Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with
Xen 3.4.3 Release Candidate 4 Available for Test
04/09/2010
Tag ‘3.4.3-rc4’ has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg Would be nice to get this out by the end of the month. Please test!
FOSS Mentor Program and Xen.org
04/08/2010
I have been looking over the Teaching Open Source organizations web site (http://teachingopensource.org) and think that Xen.org needs to take part in this initiative. Based on the number of projects within Xen.org that are listed for the Google Summer of Code (see http://wiki.xensource.com/
Xen Summit North America at AMD - Are You Attending?
04/08/2010
Have you signed up at https://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd for Xen Summit yet? Yes, well then ignore the rest of this post and I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks. If not, please read on… This year’s Xen Summit at AMD looks to
Xen Cloud Control System Beta Announced
04/07/2010
From Vern Burke: I’m officially releasing the first beta of my Xen Cloud Control System package! This is a web server based control and operations system for Xen Cloud Platform that will work with any device with a browser (I run my cloud from my BlackBerry 🙂 ). The package can
Invisible Things Lab Announces Qubes OS Project
04/07/2010
Today Invisible Things Lab has announced the Qubes OS project. Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. Currently the
Xen.org makes SouthEast LinuxFest Speaker List
04/06/2010
The SouthEast LinuxFest team has released a partial speakers list (http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/node/88) for their upcoming event June 11-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC. If you review the list, you will see that Xen.org will be speaking at the event as well as hosting a booth as