Good news: The probably well-known (though still in beta), Xen-based service EC2 from Amazon is getting a new feature, that some(at least myself di) might have missed since a while: Elastic Block Storage! While until know, changing data on the EC2 system could only be stored in a
August 27 is POWER IT DOWN DAY – Turn off the power cord that powers up your printer, computer, monitor, etc. to join a global effort in reducing power consumption. You can save about 13 kWh powering down all your work devices for fifteen hours, which represents about 6.85 kg
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”, Crosby’s keynote focused more on Xen, its standing in the market and related news than on the future
(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 reviewing topics so please send your topic for consideration to stephen.spector@xen.org in either English or Japanese. All
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
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 the release of a new 2 page datasheet. Here is a proposed document that I recently wrote – xen33datasheet.pdf.
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.
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
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 of talks(“Xen 0wning trilogy”), they gave information about “Subverting the Xen Hypervisor”, “Detecting and preventing the Xen hypervisor subversions”
We have added a new project to the projects page: Ganeti Ganeti is a tool for the management of Virtualization clusters. It offers very easy management of systems with multiple virtualization servers and deployment of instances on these. It includes user-transparent setup of mirrored disks for these nodes with DRBD,
Just ran across a nice posting on the Georgia Tech project on Matt Asay’ “The Open Road” Blog. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10015925-16.html More info on this project on my previous blog posting at https://xenproject.org/index.php/2008/08/08/new-project-xenaccess-library/.
The Clarkson University team is once again leading the efforts for a full day of Xen training at Lisa 2008; http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/.The full profile of the training is here: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/training/tutonefile.html#m1. Lisa event home page at