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Xen – KVM - Linux – and the Community
May 07 2010

At Xen Summit last week, several community members and I discussed the issues around the recent launch of RHEL without Xen and its implications for Xen and the Xen.org community. I thought that I would share my opinions with a wider audience via this blog and hopefully get feedback

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Xen.org Community Weekly Update Vol 10 No 18
May 07 2010

Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News * Xen Summit North America at AMD – April 28-29 * Event Slides (and videos in 2 weeks) at

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Xen Research Paper Site Launched
May 05 2010

Thanks to a great suggestion from Pradeep Padala, I have created a new page on the Xen.org website listing papers written about Xen technology or from research using Xen technology. The page is currently live at http://www.xen.org/community/xenpapers.html but is not yet linked within

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XCP Community Meetings
May 05 2010

I am planning to schedule a monthly XCP meeting for the community and am struggling with when to host the call. As we are a global community, there is no single optimal time to host the meeting. In an effort to support the most likely attendees, please send me your

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Google Summer of Code Participants Announced
May 05 2010

The Xen.org community recently announced (at Xen Summit) the 3 participants in the 2010 Google Summer of Code: Project: Migration from memory ballooning to memory hotplug in Xen Student: Daniel Kiper Mentor: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Project: Adding new features to the XCP web interface Student: Nikola Nikov Mentor: Jon Ludlam

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Xen.org Mascot Contest Winner
May 04 2010

I am proud to officially declare the Xen.org Mascot Contest Winner -  Valentin Höbel.  Valentin’s Panda Bear was the winning selection from 226 votes: Panda Bear  – 92 Votes (40%) Bonsai Tree – 85 Votes (37%) Zen Penguin – 49 Votes (21%) The current image of the Panda Bear

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Release Candidate 6 for Xen 3.4.3 Available
May 04 2010

Folks, 3.4.3-rc6 is now tagged in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg I hope that this will be the final RC before the 3.4.3 release. Please test!

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Project Golden Ratio - April 2010 Data
May 04 2010

The latest Project Golden Ratio data is not available for your review at http://www.xen.org/files/GoldenRatio/GR_Stats_April2010.pdf. In comparison, the final Q1 2010 statistics are available at http://www.xen.org/files/GoldenRatio/March2010_GRStats.pdf. Here are some highlights for April 2010: * Xen-users

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Xen Summit at AMD Slides UPDATE
May 03 2010

I have created a new page at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_spring_2010.html which will have all the slides and videos from Xen Summit at AMD. I have about 50% of the slides currently available.

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Xen Summit at AMD Slides
Apr 30 2010

I have received a few slides from presenters at Xen Summit and have posted them at SlideShare in the Xen Summit at AMD 2010 event page. You can access the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/event/xen-summit-na-at-amd-2010. I will continue to upload the slides on SlideShare as I receive

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Xen Summit North America at AMD Update
Apr 29 2010

Xen Summit at AMD is over and I would like to thank all the speakers and attendees for making this a great conference. I am collecting all the presentations from the speakers and will be posting them on Monday next week. The conference was also filmed and I anticipate getting

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Xen.org History Page Launched
Apr 26 2010

I have created a new page, Xen History Page, on the Xen.org website for those interested in learning more about the history of the Xen.org community and Xen hypervisor project. Please take a look and if you have content to add, please let me know.

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