As part of Xen Summit being co-located with the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston, Xen.org is hosting a 1 day training session on the Xen hypervisor. Thanks to everyone who offered their assistance to run the training session. The session is currently listed at http://www.usenix.org/
Xen.org Community: The newly created Xen.org Trademark Policy is now available for review from the Xen Advisory Board. This new policy defines the rules of how the Xen trademark can be leveraged by members of the community as well as commercial offerings. It is available for community review
Here is a link to a great blog posting containing a video called “Revolution OS – A History of Open Source” Â Â http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/23/revolution-os-history-of-open-source/. For those of you wanting to learn more, this is a great video.
The Xen Summit Boston 2008 registration site is live at https://db.usenix.org/cgi-bin/Conference/xen08/reg.cgi. The event is held over two days, June 23 – 24 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel and a $75 discount is offered to anyone wishing to also attend the USENIX Annual Technical
At OSBC 2008, I met with people who are running the Open Source Census Project which is an attempt to collect all the data on which open source technology is being used in the Enterprise. I think this is a great idea and that Xen.org should make sure that
I am back from the OSBC 2008 event in San Francisco and wanted to share my notes from the sessions I attended as well as some thoughts on the overall event. Feel free to add any comments on the material and I will answer your questions. Notes from Day 1
Henning Sprang, Mark Williamson, and I discussed the issue of people reporting bugs in the Bugzilla system with no guarantee that anyone was watching or working on the Bugzilla system. Several companies working on the Xen hypervisor are leveraging Bugzilla to track and monitor issues but there is no existing
The final installment of the History of Xen – Architecture involves the ultimate question, where does the name “Xen” come from? It is clear that Xen comes from the XenoServer project at Cambridge which is the research that the Xen hypervisor emerged from. The name “Xeno” for the XenoServer project is
Attention, Attention, Attention. The Xen Summit Program Committee for the Boston event in June (23 – 24) is busy reviewing submitted topics and is waiting for your proposal. We are actively putting together the agenda and would like nothing more than to have you as a speaker. This is your chance
I have added a few new Blogroll links to other people who have active blogs on the Xen hypervisor. Please take some time to visit their blogs for interesting information: * Ian C Blenke – http://ian.blenke.com/xen/ * Kris Buytaert – http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/taxonomy/term/470 * Muli Ben-Yehuda
When I first started working in the Xen community, I purchased the David Chisnall book about Xen to learn more. I received a link from the publisher to showcase a chapter from the book. Click here to read Chapter 6, Understanding Device Drivers. For more information on this book you
It’s a question many will ask at some point. You’ve got Xen set up, used a graphical tool to configure some domUs (or downloaded some pre-built images, or followed a howto). But now you want to know where your virtual machines are actually stored. It’s a good