By Atsushi Nakada http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20090904/336585/ (Japanese Text Below English Text) “Xen Cloud Platform is open source software to combat VMware’s vCloud. It forms a bridge between clouds inside and outside a business,†said Mark Templeton, President & CEO of Citrix
Here is an updated version of the VGA Passthrough video: Thanks to Mr. Teo En Ming for the updated video.
Xen Community: AMD and the Xen.org community are currently planning the next Xen Summit North America for April 21 – 22, 2010 in the Bay Area at AMD’s facilities. The event is being planned for Wed-Thurs to allow people to travel home on Friday instead of a Saturday. Before
The Xen Summit Asia 2009 Registration Sites are now live and ready for attendees to sign up. We are supporting 2 sites for this event – Chinese Registration (Chinese) and International Registration (English). All Chinese attendees should register at http://xen.linuxpk.com/ and all International attendees should sign up at
The Xen Summit Asia program committee is looking for you; yes you. Topic submissions for the event are now open for submission at http:://xensummit.org. Be the first on your block to submit your topic for inclusion in this exciting event at Intel’s R&D facility in
Jeanna Matthews and Zach Shepherd from Clarkson University are once again providing training on open source Xen at a USENIX Conference; Lisa 2009 in Baltimore, MD from November 1 – 6. The session is on Friday, November 6 from 9 – 5pm. Complete details on the training session is at http://www.
From Mr Teo En Ming’s personal blog and xen-devel mailing list: I have made and uploaded a two-part video series on VGA pass through to Windows XP HVM domU to YouTube. Here are the YouTube links and videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNEiSInrav0 http://www.youtube.com/
I have updated the Xen.org community slides based on the newly announced Cloud Xen project and the new format of the website. The slides are available in pdf: Xen Overview PDF Xen Overview Q3 2009 View more documents from Stephen Spector. If you would like the slide source for
Congrats to Doug Lane for this great shot of a Citrix employee at VMWorld with the infamous “You Can’t Lock Xen in a 10×10” shirt. Doug will win the item of his choice (up to $20) from the Xen.org Store at http://www.cafepress.com/xen_org.
I read a nice blog posting at http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82248248 which explains what OVF is and isn’t. Good read for those of you confused about this new standard.
Congrats to the Xen.org community for winning the 2009 Best of Open Source Middleware and Platforms from Infoworld. The complete list of winners is at http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/best-open-source-software-awards-2009-628.