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
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
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.
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
XenSummit Asia is now open for registration. As usual we will charge a fee to cover the cost of XenSummit and will require you to register for the event. The cost will be $150. Registration will be open until Oct 31st. If you need an invitation letter for a visa,
Dear Xen developers, I wanted to announce that Jan Beulich from Novell has been nominated as Xen Hypervisor committer and confirmed by vote by the other Xen committers, namely Keir Fraser, Tim Deegan and Ian Jackson. Congratulations Jan! Jan’s Contribution Jan has made a tremendous contribution to the project
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,
After nearly two weeks of travelling (Xen Hackathon two weeks ago, the Open World Forum last week), I have finally managed to publish location details, hotel information and the first 10 talks for XenSummit Asia, held Nov 2-3 in Seoul, Korea. I wanted to thank the Program Committe Members Mr.
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.
For those of you who have not noticed, Xen.org has now a jobs page and we made changes to the Wiki main page. Jobs Page We created a community jobs page, where companies that are active in the community can post job offerings. Jobs listed on this page are
One of the fun things about a hackathon is the chance to get everyone together in a room and just talk about crazy ideas you might try at some point in the future. One of the advantage that a certain competing virtualization technology has over Xen is that you don’