In January 2009, I posted my goals as your community manager for 2009 – https://xenproject.org/index.php/2009/01/02/community-manager-goals-for-2009/. My focus was on three main areas: * Global * Community * Xen Summits and Events As we end 2009, I would like to highlight some of the community achievements
VMBlog.com – 12/21/2009 – 2010 Prediction: IT gets smart about server virtualization and focuses on desktop virtualization, virtual networking and virtual appliances <http://vmblog.com/archive/2009/12/21/2010-prediction-it-gets-smart-about-server-virtualization-and-focuses-on-desktop-virtualization-virtual-networking-and-virtual-appliances.aspx> By Simon Crosby Contributed Article by Simon Crosby, chief technology officer of the
From xen-devel: It is with great pleasure that I announce that now that the multiboot patch got commited in Xen’s unstable tree for the coming 4.0 release, I have merged GNU Mach’s Xen tree into master, i.e. although it has already been used for the Debian
Be sure to check out the review of The Book of Xen at http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/1430247/The-Book-of-Xen.
For those of you shopping for a cool Xen item, here is a code for 25% today only – MERRY25. Enjoy.
From Thomas Goirand on xen-devel: Dear everyone, Bastian Blank – which is the person (among others, but mainly him) that is packaging Xen in Debian -, has decided last summer that he doesn’t want to deal with the qemu-dm of Xen, thus removing Xen Qemu and support for HVM in
From Michael Miller’s PCMag.com blog comes the Top Technologies of the Decade where Xen is mentioned… Check out the blog post.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am starting a new metrics project in 2010 to help the community get a “snapshot” of itself. I am still working on the overall concept and appreciate the feedback already received and am now introducing the document that will be used to
I have added a new CLOUD project to the Xen.org community project page called AppScale from the University of California at Santa Barbara. From Professor Chandra Krintz: In the spirit of Eucalyptus (also from UCSB), we’ve implemented a cloud fabric (Platform-as-a-service) that emulates the Google App Engine cloud.
I have updated the Xen Users Commonly Asked Questions Guide with some November questions that appeared in xen-users. The current document is available here. If you are interested in seeing the complete list of xen-users questions in November, feel free to check the weekly Xen.org community summary at http:
Are you looking for the perfect gift this year? Do you often give the “I don’t know” answer when asked what you want? Well, I have the perfect solution for you – a Xen item from the Xen Store at CafePress. Here is just a sample of what I have
From Keir in xen-devel: Lots of new features have recently made it into the xen-unstable tree, and I think now is the time to declare a freeze so that we can get 4.0 out the door early in the New Year. If you’re sitting on any feature patches,