I am pleased to announce the next Xen Project Hackathon to be held this spring. Â Although we call it a Hackathon, the event consists of several parallel sessions in which Xen Project developers will create, discuss and review designs and changes that impact Xen’s architecture. We’ll perform
The USENIX Annual Tech Conference 2009 is scheduled for June 14-19, 2009 in San Diego, CA. Both Wenjin Hu and Zach Shepard from Clarkson University who ran the Xen Hypervisor tutorials at LISA 2008 will be running the Virtualization Tutorials at this event with a focus on open source Xen.
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 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.
The day before Xen Summit in Boston a few weeks back, Xen.org hosted a Xen Training Day for attendees of the USENIX conference. 37 people attended a day long session about Xen which covered the basics of the Xen hypervisor as well as more complex subjects such as file
Ian Pratt spoke at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference a few weeks back in Boston. Here are the slides from that presentation. Talk overview: This is a talk in three parts. I’ll give a summary of the Xen story so far, looking at how Xen made the transition from
Interview with Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur who are leading the Xen training class on Sunday at USENIX. http://blogs.usenix.org/atc08/?p=8
From Clarkson University, http://web2.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2028. Also, the Xen training day session for USENIX is the second most registered for class at USENIX Technical Conference; we are only 1 person behind the most registered for class so I expect it to be a photo
Ian Pratt gave the Keynote address at the USENIX NSDI 2008 event last week. Here is a link to the USENIX NSDI site: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/tech.html. Ian’s slides are available in pdf (ian-nsdi-keynote-apr2008.pdf). I don’t know if a video was taken
Prentice Hall has released a sample chapter from the book Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187966. Some of the book’s authors will be leading the Xen workshop at USENIX Technical Conference in Boston and possibly
As part of Xen Summit being co-located with the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston, Xen.org is hosting a 1 day training session on the Xen hypervisor. Thanks to everyone who offered their assistance to run the training session. The session is currently listed at http://www.usenix.org/
The Xen Summit Boston 2008 registration site is live at https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/xen08/reg.cgi. The event is held over two days, June 23 – 24 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and a $75 discount is offered to anyone wishing to also attend the USENIX Annual Technical