Lars Kurth

Lars Kurth is a highly effective, passionate community manager with strong experience of working with open source communities (Symbian, Symbian DevCo, Eclipse, GNU) and currently is community manager

Lars Kurth
Xen Document Day: November 29th
Nov 25 2011

After the last Xen Document Day, many people asked me when we would do another document day. After a discussion on the mailing list, we settled on next Tuesday (November 29). This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including

Tommorrow: Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil
Nov 16 2011

A quick reminder that Xen.org is helping to run the Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil, tommrrow and Friday. We are doing this in partnership with Citrix, Dell and Rackspace. For users of Xen, a number of interesting things will happen: * I will give a status update on PVOPS, the

Moving Xen Sites to Rackspace
Nov 09 2011

Rackspace Hosting has offered the Xen.org community to host xen.org services. We have started migration last week and the expectation is that all services will be migrated by Nov the 21st. Most services will be migrated with little impact on our users. Where there is an impact, there

XenSummit Asia Day 2 : Photo Collage
Nov 04 2011

XenSummit Asia is over. I uploaded all slides onto slideshare. The videos will still take a while and will follow later. In the meantime a photo collage from Day 2 will have to be enough for now. Thank you again for to our sponsors, the speakers and the audience.

XenSummit Asia Day 1 : Photo Collage
Nov 02 2011

The XenSummit banquet has just finished. Not much time to put a blog post together, but I wanted to share a quick photo collage with you. Thank you all for such a good day, and a thank you to our sponsors, the speakers and the great audience. P.S.: The

Only a few Days to go to XenSummit Asia
Oct 27 2011

Only a few days to go to XenSummit Asia: the event is shaping up to be great. I wanted to thank our sponsors and hosts for helping make XenSummit Asia happen. Sponsors of the event are: Samsung Electronics, University of Korea, kt and GitHub. Due to the additional support, we

Xen Document Day: Thank You!
Oct 27 2011

I wanted to thank everybody who has contributed to the Xen Document Day yesterday. We had about 15-20 participants at any given time duting the day, which is great. We made some progress in some areas: but more needs to be done. Some areas of work, where progress was made:

Building OpenNebula Clouds on XCP
Oct 24 2011

The Xen.org and OpenNebula.org open source communities are working together to add XCP support to OpenNebula. This collaboration will produce the   OpenNebula Toolkit for XCP, which will be hosted as freely available open source project on OpenNebula.org. The XCP project team and Xen.org community will

Xen 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 released
Oct 21 2011

The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of the Xen releases 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 from the active stable branches. Note that these are source releases. Fixes/features include: * New XL toolstack * Debug support: kexec/kdump * Remus (High Availability) * Device passthrough to HVM guests * Interrupt

Xen Document Day on October 26
Oct 20 2011

On October 26th, the Xen Developers will facilitate the first Xen Document Day. This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, etc. * Improve important wiki pages: this means fixing important pages, retiring old ones,

Xen @ LinuxCon Brazil
Oct 19 2011

Xen.org is pleased to announce that we are helping to plan and run the Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil, Nov 17-18, 2011, Expo Center Norte, São Paulo, Brazil. We are doing this in partnership with Citrix, Dell and Rackspace. From a Xen perspective, a number of interesting things

Blog Maintenance
Oct 07 2011

On Saturday, Oct 8th at around 16:00 GMT we are planning to upgrade the VM on which the blog is running. This will mean that the blog will be down for a few minutes.