Great news for Xen.org from Oracle – http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/161333. News Facts * Oracle today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms. * Customers will have full access to Oracle’s Premier Support
From Alessandro Perilli: http://cloudcomputing.info/en/news/2010/07/yahoo-to-move-to-xen-for-cloud-computing.html In a roundtable hosted by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) that took place last month, the Vice President of Cloud Computing at Yahoo! Surendra Reddy revealed that the search giant is adopting the open source hypervisor Xen. The
At Xen Summit last week, several community members and I discussed the issues around the recent launch of RHEL without Xen and its implications for Xen and the Xen.org community. I thought that I would share my opinions with a wider audience via this blog and hopefully get feedback
I am on my way home from LA to Florida and wanted to send an update to the community on the Xen.org promotion at SCALE this weekend: * Booth – There was plenty of traffic over the 2 day event at the booth and I had the opportunity to learn about
Can a Chameleon Change its Spots? I had lunch today with veteran virtualization blogger Alessandro Perilli, who was in the Seattle area for the Microsoft MVP Summit. Alessandro has repeatedly been the first to spot key industry trends. He is truly plugged-in, and brings to his analysis a level of
Next week, from October 7th to 9th, will take place in Santiago of Chile, the 9th version of one of the biggest FLOSS related event in South America: Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre. In this opportunity will present two talks concerned with Xen. In the first one, on Wednesday, Erika
This video uses code_swarm to visualise the development of the Xen project. It shows commits to xen-unstable.hg. Each dot represents a file. New files appear in a random place, and with each commit they get brighter and move towards the person making the change. The colours represent a
I am working on a new Xen Configuration Settings file to list all the possible options for a config file. Please take a look and let me know what items I missed or help filling in the blanks. Thanks. xen-configuration-details.pdf
Xen Community: I often see requests from various people for information on where certain features are located within the Xen source code. To assist those people, I have been working on (and still am) a Xen Source Code Guide for the newly released Xen 3.4 source code. I expect
The Xen Community has completed a discussion around the selection of the proper tree for future development activities; from Keir Fraser on June 4th (full thread)… With 3.4 out the door it is time to revisit the state of our Linux repositories. Currently we have a number of trees
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
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