
Root Linux Conference is coming to Kyiv, Ukraine on April 14th. The conference is the biggest Linux and embedded conference in Eastern Europe with presenters exploring topics like: Linux in…
Root Linux Conference is coming to Kyiv, Ukraine on April 14th. The conference is the biggest Linux and embedded conference in Eastern Europe with presenters exploring topics like: Linux in…
Let’s take a step back and look at the current state of virtualization in the software industry. X86 hypervisors were built to run a few different operating systems on the…
By Olivier Lambert Containers and hypervisors are often seen as competing technologies – enemies even. But in reality the two technologies are complementary and increasingly used together by developers and…
Maybe you heard few years ago, a project called Xen Orchesta. It was designed to provide a web interface for Xen hypervisor with Xend backend. The project started in 2009,…
The XCP team would like to announce Project Zeus, our port of the XCP toolstack to Fedora and CentOS (through the EPEL). This is a follow-on to Project Kronos, which…
XCP 1.5 Beta is now available. Go to http://bit.ly/x6UBbY to download.
It truly was an amazing year for Xen.org! The key highlights included Dom0 supporting going into mainline Linux kernel, Project Kronos, and renewed focus  Xen for ARM. All three of…
As I mentioned in the Xen Day post, Xen.org was offered a slot at the Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. The Build a Cloud attendees were great. They…
It was a cloudy day in Boston last week as Xen.org hosted Xen Day Boston and CloudStack hosted Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. Xen Day First and foremost…
Many users have been asking a bit about the internals of the authentication mechanisms in XCP and XAPI, and how to add extra users, so I thought I should talk…
XCP 1.1 has been released: http://xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.1.0.html
XCP 1.1 RC1 is available. Please visit http://xen.org/download/xcp/ to download.
I’d like to introduce you to Thomas Goirand. Thomas is a Debian package maintainer who has volunteered to help us package the XenAPI toolstack for Debian. He recently attended DebConf in Bosnia, where he did a great deal of work for the XCP-to-Debian packaging effort. He’s written up a short summary of his history with Xen, and his Project Kronos packaging efforts to date.
The XCP team would like to formally announce Project Kronos, our port of XCP’s XenAPI toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu dom0.
XCP 1.1 beta is available. See the XCP Roadmap page on wiki.xen.org for more information.
My name is Mike McClurg, and I am a Citrix developer working on the Xen API (xapi) and the Xen Cloud Platform. I have recently been chosen as the new…
There will be another Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) call this week on Thursday, October 14th. We’ll post an agenda and some slides before the meeting happens. If there is anything…
As far as I can see, the “xe” command in XCP and XenServer is missing the options to implement the underlying VM.get_tags, VM.set_tags, VM.add_tags and VM.remove_tags Xen API calls to…
I received an email from Alberto Gonzalez Rodriguez who created OpenXenCenter/OpenXenManager and is now working on OpenXenWebManager. Info to access the tool is: steps to test are: download from http://bit.ly/bres2U…
From Rob Hoes: To isolate network traffic between VMs (e.g. for security reasons) one can use VLANs. The number of possible VLANs on a network, however, is limited, and setting…
We’re pleased to announce the release of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 0.5, a complete open-source cloud infrastructure platform with a powerful management toolstack based on open APIs, support for…
For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting – the minutes are now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. If you did attend the meeting, please feel free to edit…
Tomorrow is the XCP Community Call which will be dial-up as well as IRC chat, information below: Meeting Date: July 7, 2010 Time: 2:00 pm UK (London) /9:00 am US…
From Dave Scott: The third (final?) release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html The changes since the RC2 are: *…
On July 7, 2010 the Xen.org community will be hosting the 2nd Xen Community Meeting to discuss XCP development issues. This meeting will be the follow-up to meeting #1 <http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings>….