As I presented in my 2009 Xen Summit plan, I am working to host a Xen Summit event in Germany next Summer. I recently spoke with the LinuxTAG managers and…
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The "Encuentro Linux" is, besides Open Community, one of the most important FLOSS event in Chile. This year, the "Encuentro Linux" will be held in Concepción, about 500 kilometers to…
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Xen Community: Did you know that Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) sponsored and hosted by Fujitsu is only $50 to attend? At that price, we should easily have a record crowd;…
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I received an invitation to have Xen sponsor a booth at the OSBC 2009 conference in San Francisco. I attended this event earlier in the year, my notes are here,…
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Xen Community: I am getting ready to start development of the Xen Solution Search Tool that will be a part of the new Xen.org site. This tool will allow customers…
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To help drive attendance and awareness of the Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) event at Fujitsu we are doing a 2 month advertisement on the well read virtualization.info Japanese site to…
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On the new home page of Xen.org, we have a section "Xen in the Industry." This section has slides and audio/video from Ian Pratt and Simon Crosby presentations at various…
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For those of you with calendars reaching into 2009, please reserve February 24 - 25 for the first Xen Summit 0f 2009 hosted by Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA. We…
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The new website is live; please send me any problems you find so I can make fixes. Current Issues: 1) The Wiki did not transfer over to the new look…
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The Xen.org community will again be running a full day training session at an upcoming USENIX Event - LISA '08. For those of you going to event or looking for…
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Next week I will be part of a panel on virtualization at an HP event in NY for financial CIOs. The panel is focused on these topics about open source…
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Ian Pratt and I were discussing the fact that open source Xen has no "mascot" like other open source projects and we joked about some possibilities (see my list below).…
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The Xen Summit Tokyo (Asia) registration system is now active at https://www.regonline.com/xsasia08. For people who speak Japanese, please visit this site to assist with registration: http://xen.org/xensummit/How_to_register_Japanese.html. If you have any…
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The official Xen.org Press Release announcing Xen 3.3 has been posted here. There are many partner quotes in the release from Oracle, Novell, Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM, Fujitsu, Samsung, Neocleus,…
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From Samuel Thibault: The traditional way to configure a PV guest is to write in the configuration file the path to the kernel/initrd to be loaded. However, logically enough, these…
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From Samuel Thibault: To provide HVM domains with virtual hardware, Xen uses a modified version of qemu, ioemu. It used to run in dom0 as a root process, since it…
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From Samuel Thibault: Domain 0 running a lot of components like physical device drivers, the domain builder, ioemu device models, PyGRUB, etc. has been worrisome from a security point of…
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I am currently working on the Xen.org Community Plans for 2009 Xen Summits and I wanted to share my thoughts with the community to get feedback on my ideas. In…
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Xen.org Community: As many of you are aware, I have been working the past few months to update the current Xen.org website to better target various users of the site…
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I have just posted Ian Pratt's slides from LinuxWorld at http://www.xen.org/files/IanPrattlinuxworld-xen-Aug2008.pdf. Feel free to take a look...
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For those of you wanting to see the slides from Simon Crosby's LinuxWorld Keynote, here they are. Entitled "Data Center of the Future: How the Delivery of Technology Will Change",…
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The XCI project is meeting on August 19th at 9am EST for a presentation from Fujitsu on their USB virtualization. Information on their project is at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Working_Group_Core_Hypervisor?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=USBDesign.pdf. Dial-in information: 1.888.371.8921…
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Xen Community: As with all things in the community, I would like to give everyone a chance to comment on a new document. The upcoming release of Xen 3.3 requires…
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Pivot3 recently won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award For Best Virtualization Solution. A new case study on their solution built on open source Xen is now available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Pivot3+Case+Study.pdf.
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Thanks for your responses on the Xen FIT Survey published recently. I am posting the results of the survey so everyone can see what the final opinions were. fit-survey-results.pdf
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