It was a cloudy day in Boston last week as Xen.org hosted Xen Day Boston and CloudStack hosted Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. Xen Day First and foremost a big Thank You! to our Xen Day presenters: Patrick F. Wilbur, Steven Maresca, and Josh West. What a
TripAdvisor.com, the world’s largest travel site, has donated access to their Xen Cloud Platform lab for the development of material for Xen Day! They have built a fault tolerant 20TB SAN from recycled hardware to support their XCP lab infrastructure, using technologies such as DRBD and Pacemaker.
The Xen Day Boston 2011 presenters have been set: Todd Deshane, Steven Maresca, Josh West, and Patrick F. Wilbur. For presenter bios and more information see: http://xen.org/community/xenday11.html There are still spaces available for attendees, but they are going fast. Register today! Related posts:
The Xen community was very interested in (and a little worried by!) the recent performance comparison of â€Baremetal, Virtual Box, KVM and Xenâ€, published by Phoronix, so I took it upon myself to find out what was going on. Upon investigation I found that the 3.0 Linux kernel
Xen.org excited to host Xen Day 2011 in Boston. Xen Day is co-located with USENIX LISA ’11. The Xen Day activities will be broken up into a series of units, which will include hands-on tutorials, interactive sessions, and training on topics ranging from Xen and XCP to cloud computing
The XCP team would like to announce that we have released XCP 1.1. I wanted to thank community members who have tested RC1 for doing so and wanted to let you know that no significant issues have been found. Thus, we promoted the XCP 1.1 RC1 release candidate
The OpenStack Conference is a nice change of pace from the design summit. The conference is more about announcements, Â case studies, and forward-looking discussion. There is plenty of coverage of these in the blogosphere. Ewan Mellor and I gave a talk that looked toward the future of the Xen
Three packed days of developer meetings at the OpenStack Design Summit are now in the books. It’s been great to meet the development community. Project Kronos was very well received and Chuck Short offered to take a closer look at helping us package it for Ubuntu. Here is a
Every 6 months the OpenStack community gets together to discuss plans for the next release. Next week in Boston will be the Essex Design Summit and Conference. Myself and Ewan Mellor will be representing Xen.org. If you want to get together next week and discuss anything related to Xen,
The XCP team would like to announce that, after a long time in beta, we’ve released XCP 1.1 RC1, which we hope will become our final release. Here is a list of issues that we’ve resolved since the beta release: * The license expiry bug has been resolved.
I’d like to introduce you to Thomas Goirand, who has volunteered to help us package the XenAPI toolstack for Debian as part of the Kronos project. Thomas is a Debian package maintainer and CEO of GPLHost. Thomas attended DebConf in Bosnia two weeks ago, where he did a great
The XCP team would like to formally announce Project Kronos, our port of XCP’s XenAPI toolstack to Debian and Ubuntu dom0. This will give users the ability to install Debian or Ubuntu, and then just do ‘apt-get install xapi’ in order to build a system that is (roughly) functionally