Xen.org Community: One of the major areas for improvement this quarter will be the update of the existing Xen.org website into something that delivers the information you need in a easier to use structure while also meeting the needs of various groups of users. Here is a link
The day before Xen Summit in Boston a few weeks back, Xen.org hosted a Xen Training Day for attendees of the USENIX conference. 37 people attended a day long session about Xen which covered the basics of the Xen hypervisor as well as more complex subjects such as file
Xen Community: I am looking to build an online search tool that allows Xen customers/prospects to search for solutions using/based on Xen. The search tool would take the prospects to a web page with content maintained by the solution provider – open source or proprietary. I believe adding this
As part of my Xen Around the World Project, I am posting a Google Map for everyone to add a Placemark and comment on where you are using Xen. I have already added a few placemarks. Remember, the final goal is to see if Xen is being run in every
Ian Pratt spoke at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference a few weeks back in Boston. Here are the slides from that presentation. Talk overview: This is a talk in three parts. I’ll give a summary of the Xen story so far, looking at how Xen made the transition from
I have just created a new page on Xen.org to list active projects within the community – http://www.xen.org/about/projects.html. Please visit the page and email me any other projects that you are aware of so we can have a complete list. There is contact information
Aron Giffis from HP has been helping me with the Xen Wiki and has created a great update to the Wiki to improve the css stylesheet. You can see his proposed update at http://userstyles.org/styles/8431. I am in the process of updating the stylesheets to implement this
Over the next few days I will be putting out highlights from this year’s Xen Summit in Boston. Many interesting projects, concepts, and “Xen deployments” were presented and I want to share some of these with you. I will also be setting up a new page on Xen.org
Lots of information from Xen Summit is coming…in the meantime, here are some pictures from the event: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/richcr/2008/06/23/XenSummit+2008+Boston+-+Day+1
Interview with Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur who are leading the Xen training class on Sunday at USENIX. http://blogs.usenix.org/atc08/?p=8
From Clarkson University, http://web2.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2028. Also, the Xen training day session for USENIX is the second most registered for class at USENIX Technical Conference; we are only 1 person behind the most registered for class so I expect it to be a photo
Xen Summit Boston is rapidly approaching and the Program Committee is almost complete with topic selection. Topics from Xen development partners such as Intel, AMD, IBM, Citrix, etc will be presented alongside with research from universities such as Clarkson, India Institute of Technology, University of Toronto, Binghamton, University of Maryland,