Good news for Debian users. After quite a long while of doubts if there will be a working, complete Xen environment in the upcoming Debian Lenny, there are Xen packages…
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The Xen Summit Tokyo slides are uploaded to http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_fall_2008.html along with the videos.
All the videos from Xen Summit Tokyo are now available at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_fall_2008.html. I am still working on getting all the presentations so those are not yet complete.
For those of you looking for details on the status of Paravirt_Ops, there is an updated Wiki page at: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
Here are the tutorial modules for the event training and the main slide deck: (Main Slide Deck for Training: m1.pdf) m1_session1_lab1_option-a.pdf m1_session1_lab1_option-b.pdf m1_session1_lab2.pdf m1_session2_lab1.pdf m1_session2_lab2.pdf m1_session2_lab3.pdf m1_session3_lab1.pdf m1_session3_lab2.pdf
ATTENTION! ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Registration for the Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) event hosted by Fujitsu will be closed after November 10, 2008. If you are on the fence about this event,…
I have returned from my vacation in chilly Vermont and am back in sunny South Florida ready to start pushing Xen Summit Tokyo…Expect more details for this event soon.
For those of you who have not looked over the changes to the www.xen.org website, please take a look as I plan to switch to the new site this weekend…
From Dan Magenheimer at Oracle: Memory overcommit provides the ability for the sum of the physical memory allocated to all active domains to exceed the total physical memory on the…
(English) Summit Tokyo (Asia) 2008 is fast approaching and the Xen Summit Program Committee is ready to review and accept your topic proposal for the event. The Committee is actively…
Joana Rutkowska and her team presented very interesting insights on Xen security, as well as attacks against it, at this years Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. In a trilogy…
First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV ’08) December 10–11, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08 WIOV ’08 will be held in conjunction with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems…
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…
The next XCI Project meeting is set for August 12, 2008 from 1 – 2pm EST. Please send me an email if you are interested in joining in. The agenda…
The Running Xen authors have informed me that you can now get a pdf version of their book. Go to the “Where to Buy” link at http://runningxen.com/buy-now to obtain the…
The Program Committee has discussed the choice of primary language for the upcoming event in Tokyo and has made a change from the information I posted last week. The event…
Netronome presented two interesting topics at Xen Summit: Derek McAuley: Virtualization in Network Appliances (slides to be posted soon) & Rolf Neugebauer: Network Topology Offload They also published a press…
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
For those of you coming to Xen Summit next week, I have created a short overview document with information on event check-in, local restaurants, etc. The file can be found…
Here are three links to a recent Ian Pratt interview with Virtualization.com: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3
Congrats to the authors of Running Xen for having a book review on slashdot… http://books.slashdot.org/books/08/06/09/1413220.shtml
Here it is, the final (is it every final) Xen Summit Boston Agenda along with a separate document containing the topic abstracts. xensummit_agenda.pdf xensummit_presentationtopics.pdf Extended abstracts on topics being presented…
I received a request from a Xen Summit attendee looking for a roommate to share the hotel costs in Boston. If you are interested, please send me an email and…
When I first started working in the Xen community, I purchased the David Chisnall book about Xen to learn more. I received a link from the publisher to showcase a…
OK, maybe the title of this post is a slight exaggeration but it’s good to have goals for the future! It’s a goal which many would argue will be unreachable…