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I am pleased to announce the next Xen Hackathon. The Hackathon will be hosted by the Ganeti team at Google and takes place on May 16-17, 2013 at Google’s offices in Dublin Ireland. You can find the exact address and hotel options at the events page and can also
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I’ve started working on Alpine Linux and Xen integration some time ago, when I was working as a research assistant at UPC, my college. We had just bought some blades and we needed to deploy Xen on them easily. We realized this blades contained a SD and USB slot,
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A few days ago, I had the privilege of attending SCaLE 11X in Los Angeles. And for me, it truly was a privilege. It had been over 5 years since I had the joy of attending a true Open Source conference of any real size, and what I found at
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The Xen hypervisor is now officially in git. There’s a single repo with a branch corresponding to each old xen*.hg tree: New git branch Old mercurial tree master xen-unstable.hg stable-4.0 xen-4.0-testing.hg stable-4.1 xen-4.1-testing.hg stable-4.2 xen-4.2-testing.hg staging staging/xen-unstable.
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As machines are getting more and more powerful today, people want more from the powerful hardware. From a cloud user’s perspective, it is better to run more virtual machines on a single host. Xen currently supports running hundreds of guests on a single physical machine, but we plan to
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Build a Cloud Day, February 22, Los Angeles, CA, USA As last year, a Build a Cloud Day will be held at SCaLE 11x, where Joe Brockmeier will give an overview of Xen and XCP. SCaLE 11x, February 23 – 24, Los Angeles, CA, USA Xen.org will also again be
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It’s not often in life that you get a chance to do what you love — twice. A few years ago, I was given the opportunity to spend my days working with and talking about Open Source software. It was exhilarating while it lasted, but after a few years,
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At XenSummit in August, I talked about the new planning process that Xen.org is experimenting with. This is apparently a pretty hot topic, as that presentation on slideshare.net has received over 72,000 views! We’re about half-way through the planned 4.3 development cycle, and while I’
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This year’s FOSDEM is now over, and I finally made it back home. FOSDEM was buzzing, there was great content, lots of beer, meeting old friends and makign new friends. The number of attendees was impressive: according to the organizers – all volunteers – more than 5,000 open source enthusiast
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Xen.org blog already hosted a very nice post by Ian Jackson, greatly explaining how useful xen-tools is for automatically installing Debian (and Debian-derived) VMs. Now, if this all happens on a Debian host, it is nice and easy, as getting xen-tools is just a matter of apt-get install-ing it.
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Xen Document Day: January 28 We have the first Xen document day of 2013 come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. Everybody who can and wants contribute is welcome to join! All you need is to join