Xen Directions Europe 2009
Apr
23
2009
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Xen.org Internship Available
Apr
21
2009
The Xen.org open source community is posting an open position for a summer internship – working on the design, development, and launch of a new Xen.org website. This person will be responsible for the following activities: * Research available open source web content management/platform solutions and present data with
Xen 4.0 Feature Requests
Apr
21
2009
With Xen 3.4 in test for final release shortly, it is time to submit your feature requests for the next release, Xen 4.0. The current product roadmap is at http://www.xen.org/download/roadmap.html and will be updated with the new features you submit once Xen
VM Snapshots Code Released
Apr
21
2009
Patrick Colp at the recent Xen Summit at Oracle described his project and has announced the release of the source code. From his email: I’ve been working on VM snapshots/CoW for Xen (as seen at Xen Summit this year). I’m happy to release my first version. There
Abiquo.com Releases abiCloud
Apr
16
2009
abiCloud is an open source cloud computing platform platform. It allows to quickly create a private cloud inside an organization’s firewall, and manage it with a rich user interface. Next version will allow to also deploy images in external clouds, creating an hybrid environment. abiNtense is a developing framework
Installing and Running HXEN
Apr
15
2009
For those of you who have not tried the new HXEN – Hosted Xen project, I want to go through some of the issues I had installing and running the hypervisor on my Windows XP Tablet machine. STEPS: *** Make sure that your machine has Virtualization hardware enabled (E.g. Intel VT-d)
The Modern State of Software Innovation: How Sun and Oracle Are Changing Their Open Source Diet
Apr
14
2009
Xen Community: I have been working with author Matthew Sacks on an article about Open Source and Xen.org. The article is now available on InformIT with interviews from Tim Marsland of Sun and Wim Coekaerts from Oracle. Please take a look when you have some time. http://www.
Xen.org Intro Slide Deck Available
Apr
09
2009
The Xen Champions proudly introduce a new set of slides for the community to use for any Xen.org introduction or other need. We are releasing the slides in English and Spanish with other languages to follow soon. If you need PowerPoint of Impress versions please let me know as
Xen Directions Europe
Apr
08
2009
Xen Directions Europe is all set with the following companies and universities speaking: AMD, Intel, Citrix, University of Madrid, Substance, Oracle, and HP. With speakers from 3 continents and 5 countries this looks to be an exciting event. More information coming soon on the Xen.org event page http:
White Paper - Getting 10 Gb/s from Xen: Safe and Fast Device Access from Unprivileged Domains
Apr
07
2009
A whitepaper from Solarflare Communications, Inc. was sent to me by Simon Crosby for distribution to the Xen Community. The full paper is available here; getting_10gbps_from_xen Abstract The networking performance available to Virtual Machines (VMs) can be low due to the inefficiencies of transferring network packets between
Xen.org Brochure in Chinese
Apr
07
2009
The new Xen.org Brochure is now available in Chinese – http://www.xen.org/files/Marketing/XenBrochure_Q12009_chn.pdf Thanks to Kevin Tian for the quick translation!
Xen.org Intro Slide-Deck For Review
Apr
06
2009
The Xen Champions team has been working on a new slide-deck for the community to leverage. It is a basic overview of Xen.org and the Xen Hypervisor. We plan to launch the final slide-deck later this week to the community for leverage. NOTE – Once the slides are available in