Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine Robert Gallagher It is with great reluctance that I announce my departure from Xen.org as your community manager. Working with the many community members from around the world over the past three years has been a highlight in my career and
Xen Directions South America in Sao Paulo is underway with plenty of great speakers from Cloud Providers, Google, Citrix, and Ian Pratt giving his standard opening thoughts on the future of Xen.org and associated technologies. Many people are taking pictures so I will be sure to post links to
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 User Group LA Video – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/08/26/xen-user-group-la-event-video/ * Xen Summit Asia
The Inaugural Xen User Group Los Angeles from The Bitsource on Vimeo.
From Andre Przywara: while experimenting with guest NUMA configurations I realized that Xen injects the host’s core number into each guest. I believe this behavior is wrong, the number of cores should somehow be dependent from the number of VCPUs. Currently a CPUID decoding tool of mine gives me
RELEASE-4.0.1 has been tagged in http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-4.0-testing.hg Browsing the above URL will show the mercurial changelog contains many many bug fixes since 4.0.0. We recommend all users to upgrade. A source tarball will soon be available from http://www.xen.org/
The Xen.org community is actively looking for speakers at the Nov 3-4 Xen Summit Asia at Samsung in Seoul, Korea. Please submit topic abstracts at http://xensummit.org
As I mentioned a few weeks back, Project ThreeEyes is the new effort to completely revamp the existing Xen.org website. I have opened the process up for web development companies to bid on and have received the first bid from Accelerator Enterprise Technologies. Here are the main highlights of
As part of the new Why Xen? document series, I am announcing the Why Xen? brochure for community use: here. Also available are the following: * White Paper -Â http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/WhyXen.pdf * Slides – http://www.slideshare.net/xen_com_mgr/why-xen-slides As is standard, if you
From Ian Campbell: As previously discussed we would like to relicense libxc under the LGPL. https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/07/26/xen-org-source-code-license-change-request/ http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-07/msg01378.html We have now managed to track down all but one of the necessary contributors in order
From Oracle comes an excellent site with good information on virtualization, Xen, and Oracle VM. The site is http://itnewscast.com/underground-oracle-vm-manual.
Only 2 more weeks until Xen Directions South America at LinuxCon Brazil in Sao Paulo. Speakers include: * Ian Pratt * Marco Sinhoreli * George Dunlap * Liberie Cunha-Neto * Rogerio Ferreira * Antonio Pina * Gunther Boeckmann * Thiago Cordeiro * Emanuel dos Reis Rodrigues * Boris Quiroz * Fabio King * Heitor Medrado de Faria * and me. I look forward