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/
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
The Program Committee for Xen Summit Boston has almost completed the creation of the event agenda and it should be available for public consumption tomorrow afternoon (EST). As there was a limited number of speaking slots available, several interesting and worthwhile topics had to be rejected for the event. To
I have created a new xen-mailing list for those people interested in discussing research related topics for Xen. The email is xen-research@lists.xensource.com and you can register at http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-research.
Attached you will find a PDF version of the Xen Trademark Policy described in this post. Xen Trademark Policy June 08 (PDF Version) Feel free to send us any feedback about the document. It will be very useful…
Attached is the final, complete Xen Trademark Policy as approved by the Xen Advisory Board and updated with your comments. Please feel free to offer any additional feedback you have as this document is meant to “live” as Xen continues to evolve. Xen Trademark Policy June 08 in pdf Also,
The kickoff meeting for the Xen-API community project is scheduled for May 15, 2008 at 4pm EST. I am still looking for people interested in working on this project and the meeting is open to all Xen.org community members. I will be posting all meeting minutes and activities on
Several community members have contacted me recently about the Xen-API utilities. I looked into this and discovered a great opportunity for community members looking for a project to contribute to. So, I am announcing a new community effort to complete the development of the Xen-API utilities. If you are interested
Xen.org proudly releases two new versions of the product: Xen 3.2.1 and Xen 3.1.4 You can get all released versions of the Xen hypervisor at Xen Archive Page.
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
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.