The recent publication of the new Xen.org Trademark Policy has introduced the need for a Faithful Implementation Test (FIT) for people looking to receive the rights to use the Xen…
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Xen Community: In an effort to clean up a large amount of spam attacks on the Xen Wiki, we have decided to create a special editors only file for the…
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I received a great idea from Todd Deshane today about having a monthly call where anyone interested in presenting their latest Xen related research can give a 20 minute presentation…
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Xen Community: I received some great feedback on my initial web design proposal and have updated the documents. Please look over these versions and pass along your comments Xen.org Home…
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To Xen API Project Members: I started looking at the Xen API code to see which API functions are not completed, as we discussed in our last meeting. I believe…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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(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.…
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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…
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 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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Here are some more pictures from Day 2... Â http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/
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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…
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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
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