As you know, there is interest in having the first Xen Summit in 2011 in Europe instead of North America. To get a better sense of what the community would like I created two surveys. An open full community survey still running at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/309833/Xen-Summit-2011-Event-Location-Survey
Day 2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest was much less crowded at the booth than Day 1 as Fedora held a community day and Drupal held a camp all day which kept the crowds busy. I did take some video of the event with a brief tour of the sponsor tables
Day 1 of the SouthEast LinuxFest is over and I thought the community might like a recap of today’s activities: * Presented the Xen.org history, mission, various technologies, and ways to join our effort to a filled room of about 115 people ; there were a number of good questions
The first release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html XCP-0.5 is intended to be a *stable* release, suitable for long-term production use. Please download this release candidate and give
From Chris Smowton on xen-devel… About 4-5 months ago, I wrote some userland libraries to go against James Harper’s PV drivers for Windows Xen guests (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). These provide a Xenstore, event channel and userland page granting interface very similar to those provided to Linux
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.org Annual Community Survey Completed – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/ * Xen
The new Xen.org mascot has received many positive responses from within the community and I am pleased with the reaction as it took a few months and the longer a project like this lasts, the more you worry. Anyway, now that we have a mascot, do we need a
For those of you in the Greenville, SC area be sure to stop by the SouthEast LinuxFest this weekend to visit the Xen.org booth and attend my presentation, Virtualization the Open Source Way With Xen at 1:00pm on Saturday June 12th. I will have Xen pens and
RC2 is tagged as 4.0.1-rc2 at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg Please test.
The results are in from the 2010 Annual Community Survey…here. For comparison purposes, the 2009 results are here. Thanks to everyone for participating in the survey and helping to give us all a view of areas for improvement as well as areas we are doing well. I will be
There are several new items available in the Xen.org Store with the Xen Panda mascot. If you see an item that you would like, but is not listed please let me know and I can add it for you.
I am proud to announce the formation of the first Xen User Group in the United States – Xen User Group LA. The group is being led by Matthew Sacks of The Bitsource and has just announced their first meeting with Jeremy Fitzhardinge as the guest speaker. The meeting is scheduled