There has been some recent blog postings around about the death of Xen; very amusing to read…Simon Crosby responds to these blogs in his typical manner at http://community.citrix.com/display/~simoncr/2008/07/02/Xen+is+Dead!+Long+Live+Xen!. As the blog postings also relate to
The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2, 2008 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm EST 1.888.371.8921 Int’l: http://www.btconferencing.com/citrix/globalaccess/
Andres Lagar-Cavilla from the University of Toronto presented a unique methodology to create “instant” DomUs within a cloud on demand. His project, Snowflock, is detailed below: Snowflock is our prototype implementation of the Impromptu Cluster (IC) abstraction. In an IC, an application encapsulated inside a virtual machine (VM) is swiftly
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 release if you want more information: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/netronome-to-share-vision-for,442778.shtml
I have updated the Xen.org site and created a new Xen Summit Boston page: http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_summer_2008.html I am still collecting presentation slides and converting them to pdf so not everything is live yet. I will also be adding the videos of the
Here are some more pictures from Day 2… Â http://richcrusco-live.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!964334461AD1B983!374/
Over the next few days I will be putting out highlights from this year’s Xen Summit in Boston. Many interesting projects, concepts, and “Xen deployments” were presented and I want to share some of these with you. I will also be setting up a new page on Xen.org
Lots of information from Xen Summit is coming…in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr/2008/06/23/XenSummit+2008+Boston+-+Day+1
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
If you have the time today, you can help the Firefox folks set a record: Firefox 3 is here! Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours and download Firefox today.
The second meeting for the Xen API Community Project is scheduled with 2 Citrix engineers joining the call to answer questions raised in our last meeting. Meeting info: July 2, 2008 from 1:30 – 2:30 pm EST 1.888.371.8921 Int’l: http://www.btconferencing.com/citrix/globalaccess/
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 in the Xen.org Wiki.