Announcing the open-ovf project and source code availibility. Hi folks, we are announcing the availibility of source code for the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and
I have created a new page on the Xen Wiki where anyone wishing to post change requests to the Xen Documentation can do so: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. If anyone makes any of these changes, please update the Wiki so people know what has been completed and
I often receive emails asking about the documentation for Xen and wanting to see an upgrade, etc. The latest documentation that I am aware of is at this page: http://xen.org/xen/documentation.html The Xen 3.0 documentation is out of date, as I often get told, and
Interesting article on N-version programming from the University of Michigan: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080807-outsourcing-av-researchers-move-antivirus-scan-to-the-cloud.html
 Nice review of the Amazon tool based on open source Xen: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002865&pageNumber=1
To Xen API folks: I see that Josh West has added some feature requests to the Wiki (see list below). Also, I have posted some API functions that appear to be not written yet. I have not gotten any feedback so I guess I have a good list. So next
Brandeis University has been leveraging Xen for the deployment of their PeopleSoft applications. Read about their solution in the newest Xen.org Case Study at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen_Case_Studies?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=Xen+Brandeis+Case+Study.pdf.
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 Design and Implementation (OSDI ’08), December 8–10, 2008. Overview Over the past decade,
I have posted a new project on the Xen.org Project page: XenAccess Library. Project Overview: When running multiple domains (or virtual machines) using the Xen hypervisor, this library will allow a privileged domain to view the runtime state of another domain. This technique is known as virtual machine introspection.
A new Xen management project has just been posted on the Xen.org Projects Page. The source code will be available soon for anyone interested in working on this project. Screen shots and other information is available at http://www.zentific.com/screenshots.php. For more information, contact Steven Maresca
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 (Xen) and their own management (Tivoli), IBM could be well-positioned to open their resources more broadly…”
Pivot3 today announced a new solution for serverless computing based on open source Xen. You can learn more about their solution at http://www.pivot3.com/products/serverless-computing. Ian Pratt was quoted in their release: “Pivot3 has taken advantage of the openness and high performance of the Xen hypervisor