Project Snowflock is now available to the general public. We’re making a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock. Briefly, Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different
The Xen.org community will again be running a full day training session at an upcoming USENIX Event – LISA ’08. For those of you going to event or looking for a hands on approach to Xen training, the community will be hosting the following training session on Monday November 10th
Next week I will be part of a panel on virtualization at an HP event in NY for financial CIOs. The panel is focused on these topics about open source software and virtualization, listed below. If you have any thoughts that you would like expressed by me at this
The official Xen.org Press Release announcing Xen 3.3 has been posted here. There are many partner quotes in the release from Oracle, Novell, Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, Fujitsu, Samsung, Neocleus, Citrix, SignaCert, etc and I encourage everyone in the community to take a look. I just got a
I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In the past, Xen Summits have been held every 9 months with the majority of them being in North America.
The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf. Dial-in information: 1.888.371.8921
Pivot3 recently won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award For Best Virtualization Solution. A new case study on their solution built on open source Xen is now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Pivot3+Case+Study.pdf.
Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility. Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and
Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
IBM just announced they are spending $400 million to create two new data centers for cloud computing research. From the article: “Using a slick combination of off-the-shelf, open-source virtualization technologies (Xen) and their own management (Tivoli), IBM could be well-positioned to open their resources more broadly…”
Pivot3 today announced a new solution for serverless computing based on open source Xen. You can learn more about their solution at http://www.pivot3.com/products/serverless-computing. Ian Pratt was quoted in their release: “Pivot3 has taken advantage of the openness and high performance of the Xen hypervisor