The Xen Summit Program Committee is actively reviewing all the submitted topics for this event (we still want more topics – send to Stephen Spector) and I wanted to make everyone aware of a proposed agenda for the event along with some topics already approved. The proposed agenda, current topics, and
Ian Pratt gave the Keynote address at the USENIX NSDI 2008 event last week. Here is a link to the USENIX NSDI site: http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi08/tech/tech.html. Ian’s slides are available in pdf (ian-nsdi-keynote-apr2008.pdf). I don’t know if a video was taken
Xen.org Community: The mailing lists are having problems as the server they use is not working correctly. The team in the UK is aware of the issue and is actively working on a solution. April 22: The servers are now up and working properly (details in my comment below)
Prentice Hall has released a sample chapter from the book Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1187966. Some of the book’s authors will be leading the Xen workshop at USENIX Technical Conference in Boston and possibly
The current Xen.org website has done a nice job of allowing people in the community access to the source code, released builds, documentation, mailing lists, etc; however, I believe that Xen.org can be transformed into a vital information repository for the Xen community leveraging the latest in web
For those of you who love legal discussions and believe that Software Patents should be dissolved, here is some information I received today. NOTE – My posting of this information does not imply my agreement with nor disagreement with the concept; just found this interesting. BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — April 8, 2008
I often receive email from people asking questions that typically end up being sent to xen-users for a quick response. I wanted to remind people that we have a great search utility at http://xen.markmail.org that will search every xen mailing list email sent since the mailing lists
As the Xen.org community manager, I felt it was worth my time to install Xen on a machine to learn more about how it works and what it takes to install. I am sharing my experience with the community, especially for people looking at Xen for the first time.
As part of Xen Summit being co-located with the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston, Xen.org is hosting a 1 day training session on the Xen hypervisor. Thanks to everyone who offered their assistance to run the training session. The session is currently listed at http://www.usenix.org/
Xen.org Community: The newly created Xen.org Trademark Policy is now available for review from the Xen Advisory Board. This new policy defines the rules of how the Xen trademark can be leveraged by members of the community as well as commercial offerings. It is available for community review
Here is a link to a great blog posting containing a video called “Revolution OS – A History of Open Source” Â Â http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/23/revolution-os-history-of-open-source/. For those of you wanting to learn more, this is a great video.
The Xen Summit Boston 2008 registration site is live at https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/xen08/reg.cgi. The event is held over two days, June 23 – 24 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and a $75 discount is offered to anyone wishing to also attend the USENIX Annual Technical