I recently read a ZDNet article at http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=479 about some issues being taken by Virtual Iron with Simon Crosby’s statements. My response to the article is added as a comment…
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(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 has completed the formation of a Program Committee and is actively looking for speakers interested in presenting their Xen work at this event. This…
Xen.org Community: One of the major areas for improvement this quarter will be the update of the existing Xen.org website into something that delivers the information you need in a…
Here is the first new “case study” from the new Xen Around the World Project. Scot Stevenson detailed a project to use Xen for the creation of a backup Time…
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…
Xen Community: I am looking to build an online search tool that allows Xen customers/prospects to search for solutions using/based on Xen. The search tool would take the prospects to…
As part of my Xen Around the World Project, I am posting a Google Map for everyone to add a Placemark and comment on where you are using Xen. I…
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…
Yoshi Tamura from the NTT Cyber Space Laboratories in Japan gave a very interesting presentation on Kemari. Kemari is a new approach to cluster systems that synchronize VMs for fault…
(English) Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored by Fujitsu is fast approaching and I am calling for Program Committee volunteers interested in reviewing all submitted topics and creating the event agenda….
I have just created a new page on Xen.org to list active projects within the community – http://www.xen.org/about/projects.html. Please visit the page and email me any other projects that you…
 For those of you who could not attend today’s meeting on the Xen API Project; here are links to relevant information: Meeting Minutes are in the Xen Wiki API Project…
Aron Giffis from HP has been helping me with the Xen Wiki and has created a great update to the Wiki to improve the css stylesheet. You can see his…
There has been some recent blog postings around about the death of Xen; very amusing to read…Simon Crosby responds to these blogs in his typical manner at http://community.citrix.com/display/~simoncr/2008/07/02/Xen+is+Dead!+Long+Live+Xen!. As the…
The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2,…
Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype…
I have updated the Xen.org site and created a new Xen Summit Boston page: http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2008.html I am still collecting presentation slides and converting them to pdf so not everything is…
Here are some more pictures from Day 2… Â http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/
Over the next few days I will be putting out highlights from this year’s Xen Summit in Boston. Many interesting projects, concepts, and “Xen deployments” were presented and I want…
Lots of information from Xen Summit is coming…in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr/2008/06/23/XenSummit+2008+Boston+-+Day+1
If you have the time today, you can help the Firefox folks set a record: Firefox 3 is here! Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24…
The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2,…
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…
Quick update for those of you following the Xen API Community project – I am close to having a Xen developer from Citrix confirmed for our next meeting to answer…
128 people are now registered for Xen Summit in 2 weeks and I look forward to meeting with everyone in Boston. As a reminder, online registration will close next Monday,…