Since the first Xen Hackathon in Cambridge this year, I have been asked a few times whether we will be organizing another Hackathon this year. The short answer is yes! Fujitsu will host the next Xen Hackathon in Munich. The Hackathon will take place September 13-15, 2011 (the week before
Last week I was at the OpenStack Conference and Design summit: I thought I would share a quick report of what I found cool and interesting. Obviously this won’t be a complete picture and the report is my personal opinion. Before I do this though, I wanted to remind
Google just announced the Google Summer of code students for 2011 and I wanted to take this as an opportunity to briefly introduce our students and their projects. We had 30 students applying for Xen projects: for some projects we had up to 5 students competing with each other. This
Xen.org is pleased to announce this year’s XenSummit, North America. The Summit is sponsored by Amazon Web Services and Citrix and will take place in Santa Clara, CA from Aug 2-3. More information such a exact location, information on hotels, agenda and registration will follow. We are also
A brief note to let you know that Xen.org will be at OSCON this year. OSCON is from July 25 – 29, 2011 in Portland, Oregon, USA. We will have a booth at OSCON. OpenStack and Xen also made a collaborative submission for a talk called “Achieving Hybrid Cloud Mobility
A few minutes ago the GSoC application deadline for students has passed. I thought I’d give a quick update of where we are at. But first of all I wanted to thank our 13 mentors from across the Xen developer community for working closely with students intending to apply.
After 11 months of development and 1906 commits later (6 a day !!!), Xen.org is proud to present its new stable Xen 4.1 release. We also wanted to take this opportunity to thank the 102 individuals and 25 organisations who have contributed to the Xen codebase and the 60
After coffee, breakfast and introductions the Xen hackathon went into full swing. 26 people from a different companies, universities and countries attended the event. Lots of discussion on project ideas, working on code and on specific problems took place. Some of my personal highlights were: * Demo of the Linpicker display
A few minutes ago, Google published the list of mentoring organisations for GSoC 2011. I am pleased to let you know that Xen.org has again been accepted this year. We already had a lot of interest from students and also have a list of interesting projects. Here is some
In the last few weeks, we have been putting a draft plan in place to rejuvenate the Xen.org website. In preparation for this, I have reviewed the content on the site, sifted through Google Analytics data, run orphaned page checkers and link checkers and realized that the site
This a guest post by Colin Dean, author of XVP, the set of free open source tools for administering VMs running on Xen Cloud Platform and XenServer. Colin has been writing system level software, especially client-server based tools, for a variety of OS platforms, since the late 1980s.Â
After 16 months of development, Xen.org is proud to present the first full version of the Xen Cloud Platform. We wanted to thank the project team, who made this happen. A full feature list as well as the install image and source packages can be found on the download