From xen-devel: I am pleased to announce the release of GUK (Project Guest VM Microkernel), which is an enhanced version of Mini-OS that underpins the Guest VM virtual machine. Guest VM is an implementation of the Java platform, written almost completely in Java, running directly on Xen. Although GUK was
From Keir in Xen-Devel: ‘3.3.2-rc1’ is now tagged in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg Please test!
After much thought and contemplation (and lots of VISA paperwork), I have decided to take a 2 month break from the hot, humid summers of South Florida for the anticipated lovely weather in the UK. I will continue to update the xen-users and xen-devel messages on the Xen Weekly Wiki
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
The fist release of the xen-users commonly asked questions guide is now available on the Xen.org website at http://xen.org/files/Support/XenUsersCommonlyAskedQuestions.pdf. Of course, this is a document in continuous change so please send any updates to this blog post or to me for document update.
Thanks to Todd Deshane for linking me to Stacklet (http://stacklet.com), a repository for Xen DomU Images. The site currently has images for CentOS 5.3, Debian (Lenny), Fedora 10, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware, and Ubuntu 9.04. There is also a forum associated with the site if you
Thanks to the 72 people who responded to the Xen.org community survey over the past 2 weeks; the results of the survey are attached in a pdf file (minus the email addresses of anyone who wanted to have further discussions). Xen.org Survey May 2009.pdf The feedback has
From VMBlog.com, you can now read Xen Virtualization Essentials on the Amazon Kindle – http://vmblog.com/archive/2009/05/25/xen-virtualization-essentials-kindle-edition.aspx.
I have created yet another Xen.org group in the newly launched Linux.com site – http://www.linux.com/community/groups/viewgroup/792-Xenorg. That brings to 6 the number of Social Network sites that have Xen.org groups; that I am aware of. If you know of others please
Hope everyone had a productive week, here is the Xen.org weekly update: •   Xen 3.4 Release Announcement – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2009/05/18/xen-34-launch-announcement/ •   Xen Directions Europe 2009 at LinuxTag – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2009/05/20/are-you-coming-to-xen-directions-europe-2009/
Xen Directions Europe 2009 is the first “techno-marketing” event for Xen.org presenting the Xen hypervisor and the products/solutions based on it as well as give university researchers a chance to show how Xen is being leveraged. This event is being co-located at the LinuxTAG conference in Berlin, Germany
Thanks to Henning Sprang for the German translation: http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/XenOverview_Q22009_ger.pdf