Attention all interested speakers for Xen Summit Boston – tomorrow at 5pm PDT will be the official close of topic submissions. Anyone still wanting to present at the event should have their topic and short abstract submitted to stephen.spector@xen.org by 5pm PDT tomorrow. We have received 30+ topics
The first meeting of the Xen API Community Project has been completed and meeting minutes are available in the Xen Wiki at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenApi#preview. A follow-up meeting will be scheduled for later this month or early June to discuss the existing Xen API specifications with
For those of you who read my blog posting on ending software patents, you might want to read the overview from several people on what happened at the Courthouse for this case. The link is http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080508231813484. The case is State Street Bank vsÂ
I am pleased to announce that we have over 50 people registered for Xen Summit Boston with attendees coming from 7 countries – India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, UK, & US. Over 30 topics were submitted to the Program Committee who are actively reviewing the requests and working on
I read a blog posting on the web today at zdnet with comments from Ian about Xen and KVM. I don’t normally post any type of “political” thoughts on this blog but I thought Ian’s comments are worth reading for the community. You can read the article at
The kickoff meeting for the Xen-API community project is scheduled for May 15, 2008 at 4pm EST. I am still looking for people interested in working on this project and the meeting is open to all Xen.org community members. I will be posting all meeting minutes and activities on
linuxsymposium 2008, Ottawa, Canada, July 23 – July 26, 2008 http://www.linuxsymposium.org The intent of the Virtualization MiniSummit is to provide a forum for attendees to explore all aspects of Linux virtualization. Whether that be the underlying technology, application of the technology in their environment or new tools
For those of you tracking my “History of Xen” blog series, I am proud to announce that we finally have the story of where “Xen” came from – check out this comment.Â
A new email has been established for anyone finding a security issue with any Xen build. Please send a detailed email of the problem to security@xen.org. This email distribution reaches a wide group of Xen community members who can immediately address the problem.
I am adding two more weeks for open submissions of topics for Xen Summit Boston. May 16 will be the official close of topic submissions so the Program Committee can create the final agenda. Please send your topic request to stephen.spector@xen.org with a brief abstract and title.
Several community members have contacted me recently about the Xen-API utilities. I looked into this and discovered a great opportunity for community members looking for a project to contribute to. So, I am announcing a new community effort to complete the development of the Xen-API utilities. If you are interested
Xen.org proudly releases two new versions of the product: Xen 3.2.1 and Xen 3.1.4 You can get all released versions of the Xen hypervisor at Xen Archive Page.