I am pleased to announce the Xen 3.4.4 release, which is an update of the Xen 3.4.x series. This should be one of the most reliable releases since it is the latest maintenance release in the long term stable 3.4 branch that has had endured
We are working on the 2012 event calendar, and are actively seeking feedback and sponsorship support for Xen to be well-represented at industry events. Xen will be represented at the following events in the next few months * SCALE10x, January 20-22, Los Angeles * FOSDEM, February 4-5, Bruxelles, BE * Oracle hosted Xen
As I mentioned in the Xen Day post, Xen.org was offered a slot at the Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. The Build a Cloud attendees were great. They were very engaged and asked lots of questions. The questions gave me a chance to cover several Xen topics
It was a cloudy day in Boston last week as Xen.org hosted Xen Day Boston and CloudStack hosted Build an Open Source Cloud Day Boston. Xen Day First and foremost a big Thank You! to our Xen Day presenters: Patrick F. Wilbur, Steven Maresca, and Josh West. What a
We had a look at the documentation for Project Kronos, and decided that it needed some significant improvement, so there’s been a good deal of rewriting and restructuring. You’ll now find a Project Kronos main page, with an introduction to the project, and a set of pages linked
TripAdvisor.com, the world’s largest travel site, has donated access to their Xen Cloud Platform lab for the development of material for Xen Day! They have built a fault tolerant 20TB SAN from recycled hardware to support their XCP lab infrastructure, using technologies such as DRBD and Pacemaker.
Now that we’ve got a page with instructions for Kronos on Oneiric (XAPI on Ubuntu), I was wondering about ways to let the community know that things are progressing. I’ve started with the simple step of adding some detail to the Xen page on the Ubuntu Community Documentation
As a long-term Ubuntu (and, before that, Debian) user, I wanted to try Kronos to see how easy it was to get Xen running on a standard Oneiric box for someone who didn’t have – and didn’t want – the detailed knowledge of the guts of the thing. Working with
The Xen Day Boston 2011 presenters have been set: Todd Deshane, Steven Maresca, Josh West, and Patrick F. Wilbur. For presenter bios and more information see: http://xen.org/community/xenday11.html There are still spaces available for attendees, but they are going fast. Register today! Related posts:
After the last Xen Document Day, many people asked me when we would do another document day. After a discussion on the mailing list, we settled on next Tuesday (November 29). This will be an all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to * Improve user documentation * Improve developer documentation, including
A quick reminder that Xen.org is helping to run the Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil, tommrrow and Friday. We are doing this in partnership with Citrix, Dell and Rackspace. For users of Xen, a number of interesting things will happen: * I will give a status update on PVOPS, the
Xen.org excited to host Xen Day 2011 in Boston. Xen Day is co-located with USENIX LISA ’11. The Xen Day activities will be broken up into a series of units, which will include hands-on tutorials, interactive sessions, and training on topics ranging from Xen and XCP to cloud computing