I have added another set of links to the Xen LiveCD images. You can now download from the Worldweb Internet Hosting site or from the Xen.org website. Complete information on the LiveCD available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/LiveCD. Once again, thanks to Thiago Martins for creating this
A new open source project, ConVirt, has just announced the 1.0 release of their solution. ConVirt is a centralized management solution that lets you provision, monitor and manage the complete lifecycle of your Xen deployment. More info at http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-goes-10/.
Xen Community: After much development and background work, I am now ready to launch a new Xen Solution Search Tool. This tool will allow anyone that has built a product with or for Xen to include it into a nice system that customers can use to easily find solutions. The
Become a Xen Champion: The Xen.org community and website is currently focused on serving the needs of two distinct groups: developers of the Xen hypervisor and individual users looking for technical support. These two groups of community members are obviously critical to the success of the Xen hypervisor, but
Xen Community: Josh West from Brandeis University is doing some amazing things with open source Xen and is actively supporting the community on IRC, a Xen Management Project, and documentation for the Xen API. He has presented the Brandeis Xen implementation at Higher Education Users Group Alliance 2008 event in
Xen Community: At last week’s Xen Summit at Oracle, Ian Pratt announced a new project that is currently in active development, Hosted Xen. This project will enable the Xen engine to run as a kernel module enabling Xen to become a Type-2 Virtual Machine Manager sitting “on top”
Congrats to the Xen Community as the Xen 3.3 release was named a finalist in the 2009 CODIE awards in the Best Open Source Solution Category. A second round of judging will begin on March 16. Approximately 400+ SIIA members will begin voting on the finalists and are allowed
There are still a few speaking slots available for anyone interested at Xen Summit Europe. The event will be an open track at LinuxTAG in Berlin, Germany on June 27, 2009 and will give presenters the opportunity to introduce your project, solution, or Xen related ideas to a larger audience
Here are some highlights of Keir Fraser’s presentation at Xen Summit: * Current Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.1 and Xen 3.2.3 (Jan 09) * Next Stable Releases: Xen 3.3.2 and Xen 3.4.0 (late March 09) Xen Development Process Update – * Use xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
From Ian Pratt’s presentation at Xen Summit;Â here are some highlights: * Xen Embedded – small footprint Xen (see xenbits.xen.org/xenclient) * Xen Client – Citrix code being placed in Xen-unstable * Hosted Xen – Xen engine run as a kernel module to enable hosted (type-2) VMM; Windows and OSX in active
Wim Coekaerts is the Xen Advisory Board member representing Oracle and was recently interviewed about Oracle , Xen, and Open Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBitsource/~3/dfCM1y510Pc/
I have spoken with several community members today at Xen Summit and they have great project ideas for Xen but not enough time to work on them. I am also aware that many university students are looking for research projects for their masters or phd work and would like to