The Xen Training Day at LISA was our largest training event to date with 75 attendees, making us the largest training session at the event. We received very positive feedback about the class and the great Xen hypervisor solution. I expect to see more Xen training sessions in 2009 as
Xen Community, The Xen Introspection Project holds the kick-off meeting today at 5pm EST and dial-in information is listed below. A new email address has been setup for this project, xen-introspect@lists.xensource.com. You can subscribe to this mailing list at http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-introspect. There
The final Xen Summit Tokyo Agenda is available at http://xen.org/files/xensummit_tokyo/XenSummit_Tokyo_Agenda.pdf.
Xen Community – the Xen training day at LISA is underway with 71 attendees. I have some sample shots from the the meeting to give everyone an idea of the crowd. Thanks for Zach Shepard and Wenjin Hu from Clarkson University for leading the training.
A new Xen-based project is now listed on the Projects page – Project Nimbus. Nimbus is a set of open source tools that together provide an “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) cloud computing solution. Our mission is to evolve the infrastructure with emphasis on the needs of science, but many non-scientific use cases are
Yesterday I met with SourceForge.net to discuss how Xen.org can better leverage their site and community. One interesting idea which I thought worthy of community feedback was the centralization of all projects associated with Xen into a single “portal” with a shared Wiki, message board, etc. This concept
It’s been a year since Citrix bought XenSource, the company created by the founders of the Xen open-source hypervisor, and integrated the business into its lineup of products delivering applications to desktops. As part of the process, Citrix made the XenServer virtualization software central to its strategy, and appointed
The Running Xen book is now available online at no charge for ACM members at http://pd.acm.org/book_detail.cfm?isbn=9780132074674.
The final agenda for Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) hosted by Fujitsu is almost complete and ready for promotion on the website; however, I wanted to give the community a sneak peak in case you were still considering attending:Â Xen Summit Agenda There are still some changes being made but
Xen Community: I have started work on an update of the existing Xen Roadmap Document that Ian Pratt wrote in July 2006. The current document is in the Xen Wiki at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenRoadMap. As Xen is a community effort, I am looking for content from developers
I have created a new webpage on Xen.org with a community Google calendar – http://www.xen.org/community/calendar.html. I have added 2 new events for November and content for 2009 in February and June. If you have any upcoming events you would like added, please let me
I recently spoke to the people at Ohloh about having the Xen.org project become a more active participant with their community tools. I am focusing on the Ohloh Journaling solution and would like to get community feedback on this tool. A nice, short video of the tool is available