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The OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine
12/22/2008

As first post in this community blog, I would like to introduce one of the new projects within the Xen Community. We started OpenNebula a few years ago in order to provide an open-source alternative to commercial tools for the dynamic management of VMs on distributed resources.  OpenNebula provides

WordPress Upgrade to 2.7
12/19/2008

I just completed the WordPress upgrade to 2.7. Please let me know if you see any issues.

Oracle joins the Xen Advisory Board
12/18/2008

The Xen community is pleased to announce the addition of Oracle to the Xen Advisory Board. Oracle joins seven other leading enterprise vendors to offer expertise and leadership to promote the Xen hypervisor as the industry standard in open source virtualization. Because Oracle is a recognized industry leader, the Xen.

Xen Document Project Update
12/17/2008

For those of you curious about the Xen Document project, you can see the latest at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. All documentation requests are posted on the site along with people who are working on the updates and status of those changes. Please contact me if you

VTDS'09: EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization Technology for Dependable Systems
12/17/2008

VTDS’09: EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization Technology for Dependable Systems Co-located with EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany Tuesday, 31st March, 2009 http://vtds09.di.fc.ul.pt Important dates: * Submission of contributions: Jan. 19, 2009 * Notification of acceptance: Feb. 16, 2009 * Camera-ready contributions: Mar. 2, 2009 * Workshop: Mar. 31, 2009 Virtualization

2008 Xen.org Community Yearly Review
12/15/2008

Xen Community: As I finish my first year as community manager for Xen.org, I thought I would take a few moments to highlight some of the community’s accomplishments for 2008. If you want more details, I have added a relevant web link or you can contact me directly.

Plaxo Social Networking Xen Group
12/15/2008

For those of you in Plaxo, I have setup a new Xen Virtualization group at http://xen.plaxogroups.com. Feel free to request membership in this group.

Ian Pratt PodCast with Doug Brown
12/15/2008

For those of you who want to hear Ian’s latest comments on Xen, etc – Doug Brown of www.dabcc.com has just posted a PodCast at http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=75. From VMBlog.com (http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/12/15/podcast-with-xen-open-source-virtualization-founder-and-citrix-vp-ian-pratt.aspx) n episode 67,

Security through Isolation in Xen
12/12/2008

Hi all, Together with some other coworkers we have been working on a reference implementation of the security through isolation concept using virtualization. This project is using Xen to provide a contained virtualized environment where malware can run without affecting the whole system. The goal for this project is to

2 New Projects on Community Projects Page
12/11/2008

I have added 2 new projects to the community projects page: * Eucalyptus Project – (Contact: Rich Wolski) * Definition: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. * Links: Project Home Page * OpenNebula.org Project – (Contact: Ruben Santiago Montero)

Finally a Xen Kernel in Debian Lenny
12/09/2008

Good news for Debian users. After quite a long while of doubts if there will be a working, complete Xen environment in the upcoming Debian Lenny, there are Xen packages with an up to date dom0 Kernel available: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686 Thanks to the debian

3 New Projects on Community Projects Page
12/09/2008

Three new Xen related projects from the University of British Columbia are now listed on the Xen.org community projects page at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html. The projects are: * SecondSite Project – http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/secondsite/ * Parallax Project – http://dsg.cs.ubc.ca/parallax/ * MPI-SCTP Project