Rackspace Hosting has offered the Xen.org community to host xen.org services. We have started migration last week and the expectation is that all services will be migrated by Nov the 21st. Most services will be migrated with little impact on our users. Where there is an impact, there
Many users have been asking a bit about the internals of the authentication mechanisms in XCP and XAPI, and how to add extra users, so I thought I should talk a bit about it. Just after installation, XCP allows only root to log in, since by default this is the
I wanted to thank everybody who has contributed to the Xen Document Day yesterday. We had about 15-20 participants at any given time duting the day, which is great. We made some progress in some areas: but more needs to be done. Some areas of work, where progress was made:
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of the Xen releases 4.1.2 and 4.0.3 from the active stable branches. Note that these are source releases. Fixes/features include: * New XL toolstack * Debug support: kexec/kdump * Remus (High Availability) * Device passthrough to HVM guests * Interrupt
Xen.org is pleased to announce that we are helping to plan and run the Cloud Discovery Days @ LinuxCon Brazil, Nov 17-18, 2011, Expo Center Norte, São Paulo, Brazil. We are doing this in partnership with Citrix, Dell and Rackspace. From a Xen perspective, a number of interesting things
The XCP team would like to announce that we have released XCP 1.1. I wanted to thank community members who have tested RC1 for doing so and wanted to let you know that no significant issues have been found. Thus, we promoted the XCP 1.1 RC1 release candidate
On Saturday, Oct 8th at around 16:00 GMT we are planning to upgrade the VM on which the blog is running. This will mean that the blog will be down for a few minutes.
Three packed days of developer meetings at the OpenStack Design Summit are now in the books. It’s been great to meet the development community. Project Kronos was very well received and Chuck Short offered to take a closer look at helping us package it for Ubuntu. Here is a
The XCP team would like to announce that, after a long time in beta, we’ve released XCP 1.1 RC1, which we hope will become our final release. Here is a list of issues that we’ve resolved since the beta release: * The license expiry bug has been resolved.
For those of you who have not noticed, Xen.org has now a jobs page and we made changes to the Wiki main page. Jobs Page We created a community jobs page, where companies that are active in the community can post job offerings. Jobs listed on this page are
Congratulations to the Xen.org community for winning the 2011 BOSSIE Award in the Data Center and Cloud Software category. BOSSIE Awards are given to the best open source software in several categories. The first BOSSIE Awards were announced in September 2007 and the awards are adjudged by the Infoworld
Because of popular demand we have made available images and vector graphics of the Xen mascot, related images and templates. You can download images from the new logos page on xen.org under a creative commons license. The intention is that members in the Xen community can use the images