Xen Summit North America planning is underway for our next community event in Sunnyvale, CA at AMD’s facilities. The event is scheduled for April 21 – 22, 2010. Make sure to reserve those dates on your 2010 calendar.
We are very pleased to announce immediate availability of ConVirt 2.0 Beta! Built on a brand new, 3-tier, repository-based architecture, ConVirt 2.0 incorporates many of our users’ most wanted and anticipated features. For more information, please visit us at http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-2-0-beta-now-available/
I have added a new project to the community projects page on xen.org at http://www.xen.org/community/projects.html. The great work from Teo En Ming is now easily found by people looking for interesting Xen related projects. The home page of this new project is at
I have finally completed the gathering of all the Xen Summit Asia information and it is available for your review at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_fall_2009.html. Included on this page are all slides in pdf format as well as HD videos of the presentations in .MTS
From Virtualization.info… In late November the FreeBSD team released FreeBSD 8.0. It finally introduces the experimental support for the Xen domU. This means that FreeBSD 8.0 can run as a (32bit only) Xen guest operating system. FreeBDS 8.0 also introduce a new experimental feature called â€
At Xen Summit Asia, Seehwan Yoo from Korea University presented an update to the Chuck Yoo presentation from Xen Summit at Oracle in Feb 2009. In this new presentation, Seehwan details the issues around running real-time applications in a virtual environment and presents the algorithm developed at Korea University to
At Xen Summit Asia 2009 Keir Fraser presented the latest on the Xen 4.0 release. The complete presentation is here. For those of you looking for the quick highlights, here you are: * Release Date: Expected release in early Q1 2010 (January/February) * Significant Features * Dom0 Kernal – PVOps (more info
Virtualization Infrastructure Workshop 04 – Cloud DAY — Operators of a data center like web, hosting services in Japan are consider to use virtualiztion technology in there system design. But introducing virtualization technology makes new challenge for its operation. This workshop is formalized to active the discussion. This time of the workshop
Xen Orchestra 0.7 is now available at http://xen-orchestra.com/?p=138 . The new project is an entire code rewrite based on community feedback and the interface is web 2.0. If you are interested in being a beta tester or evaluating this solution with your hardware please
Xen Community: At the recent Xen Summit Asia event Noboru Iwamatsu from Fujitsu listed a collection of USB devices that he has tested with Xen for USB Pasthru. To assist everyone in the community in finding previously tested devices, I have created a new page on the Xen.org Wiki
Over the last decade the use of virtualization technology has grown rapidly. Moreover, it is being used in a variety of places, ranging from the data center to the desktop. Although this has spurred great advances in processor and memory virtualization in commodity hardware and virtualization software, I/O virtualization
I have successfully navigated my way home from Shanghai, China and have lots to tell about the amazing Xen Summit Asia event at Intel. To help you get a feel for the size of the crowd here is a short clip of people waiting to complete their registration: This was