At OSBC 2008, I met with people who are running the Open Source Census Project which is an attempt to collect all the data on which open source technology is being used in the Enterprise. I think this is a great idea and that Xen.org should make sure that
I am back from the OSBC 2008 event in San Francisco and wanted to share my notes from the sessions I attended as well as some thoughts on the overall event. Feel free to add any comments on the material and I will answer your questions. Notes from Day 1
Henning Sprang, Mark Williamson, and I discussed the issue of people reporting bugs in the Bugzilla system with no guarantee that anyone was watching or working on the Bugzilla system. Several companies working on the Xen hypervisor are leveraging Bugzilla to track and monitor issues but there is no existing
The final installment of the History of Xen – Architecture involves the ultimate question, where does the name “Xen” come from? It is clear that Xen comes from the XenoServer project at Cambridge which is the research that the Xen hypervisor emerged from. The name “Xeno” for the XenoServer project is
Attention, Attention, Attention. The Xen Summit Program Committee for the Boston event in June (23 – 24) is busy reviewing submitted topics and is waiting for your proposal. We are actively putting together the agenda and would like nothing more than to have you as a speaker. This is your chance
I have added a few new Blogroll links to other people who have active blogs on the Xen hypervisor. Please take some time to visit their blogs for interesting information: * Ian C Blenke – http://ian.blenke.com/xen/ * Kris Buytaert – http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/taxonomy/term/470 * Muli Ben-Yehuda
When I first started working in the Xen community, I purchased the David Chisnall book about Xen to learn more. I received a link from the publisher to showcase a chapter from the book. Click here to read Chapter 6, Understanding Device Drivers. For more information on this book you
It’s a question many will ask at some point. You’ve got Xen set up, used a graphical tool to configure some domUs (or downloaded some pre-built images, or followed a howto). But now you want to know where your virtual machines are actually stored. It’s a good
In reading the two documents posted in Part 2, I discovered even more interesting work that was done previously. I think we are now getting close to the earliest research from which the open source Xen project was created. For your reading pleasure: * Isolation of Shared Network Resources in XenoServers
As stated earlier in my first History of Xen – Architecture post, I am on the active trail of the history of Xen and will continue to publish documents and information to help give the community a complete history of the project from idea to development to open source solution. I
For those of you writing documents that are intended to be from the Xen.org community, I have created a new About Xen.org treatment for you to leverage. The following text is currently proposed: About Xen.org. Xen.org is the home of the open source Xen® hypervisor, a
The Xen.org community will have a booth (#210) at the joint LinuxWorld / Next Generation Data Center event held in San Francisco, August 5- 7 at the Moscone Center. The booth will be staffed by myself as well as community members with spare time during the event. If you