Konrad and I have been representing Xen at KVM Forum and LinuxCon 2011 last week. First of all I want to thanks Alexander Graf, Anthony Liguori and all the other members of the KVM community for the warm welcome and fruitful collaboration on many hot topics about virtualization. KVM and
Just a quick reminder that it is only 4 weeks to the Xen Hackathon in Munich, hosted by Fujitsu from Sept 13-15. There are still a few places free: if you plan to attend, do make sure to book your flights and hotels soon as the Oktoberfest begins on Sept
Like in previous years OSCON, was a great conference to connect with Open Source developers, users and people and companies generally interested in open source. At this point, I would normally share my favourite sessions with you. Not so this year: too little time to see many sessions! Jeremy Fitzhardinge,
This year is the first time that Xen will be at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention. OSCON is held in Portland this week. As always OSCON has a packed and exciting program, with opportunities to meet developers and users from many open source projects. Xen.org is very
Stefano Stabellini, one ouf our Xen maintainers will talk about Xen Support in the Linux Kernel: Upstreaming Efforts and New Developments at the Augst SVLUG meeting. The SVLUG meeting is held in Mountain View, Aug 3 from 7-9 PM at the Symantec Offices. See you there! Abstract: Xen reuses many
The XCP project team would like to let you know that we have released XCP 1.1 beta today. While this is only a minor version bump from XCP 1.0, there are quite a few new features included with this release: * Security updates and bug fixes * IntelliCache: Enables you
As you all know, I do not normally write on the Xen.org blog; any blog for that matter. Lars asked me to announce the XenSummit line-up and how could I say no, given the quality of content and the effort that has gone into this year’s XenSummit. I
We are pleased to announce the availability of the Xen 4.1.1 maintenance release, the first maintenance release of the Xen 4.1 series. The release can be downloaded from the download pages. Xen 4.1.1 sports the following changes: * Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898 * Enhancements to guest
About a year ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/4/272) my first patchset that laid the ground work to enable initial domain (dom0) was accepted in the Linux kernel. It was tiny: a total of around 50 new lines of code added. Great, except that it took me
XenSummit North America is approaching: the Call For Participation has closed and we had our first Program Management Committee. We have many good submissions and we started accepting talks: unfortunately some talks will have to be rejected. I am also very excited about the keynote, but it will be more
My name is Mike McClurg, and I am a Citrix developer working on the Xen API (xapi) and the Xen Cloud Platform. I have recently been chosen as the new lead for the XCP project, and there are a few exciting new developments that I’d like to share with
XenSummit is approaching: the Call For Participation will be open until May 31, 2011 20:00 UTC+1. More information about XenSummit can be found here. Program Management Committee: I wanted to also take the opportunity to introduce this year’s Program Management Committee. * Boris Quiroz, Senior SysAdmin, Xen fan