I just wanted to give a quick update on how preparations for the Xen Hackathon in Cambridge are progressing. We are almost full, so if you did want to attend but have not told us yet, please get in touch with Ian Campbell as quickly as possible. The format will

This is a guest post by David Noe,  founder of stacklet.com. David explains how Stackfactory – the GPL tool used to build images – works and how others may benefit. Stackfactory is a GPL tool used to create filesystems and disk images, complete operating systems ready to run on a

Dear users! We had a serious hardware failure at the facility that we use to host xen.org and xebits.xen.org, which has been exacerbated due to a holiday in the US yesterday. We are working on resolving these and update you as soon as there is a change.

Just a brief note that to say that the unstable development repositories for XCP are moving to GitHub to the following URLs: * github.com/xen-org/xen-api * github.com/xen-org/xen-api-libs The stable source trees for XCP will remain unchanged: the same is true for the patch queues for upstream XCP

Two weeks ago, Google has announced the 2011 Google Summer of Code program. As last year, Xen.org will apply to join the Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation. The program will be administered by Lars Kurth. More information on project ideas and the program is published on the

by Lars Kurth A week ago, I started as Community Manager for Xen.org. I spent last week getting up-to-speed on the basics and feel that now it is time for a quick introduction. I have worked as part of and with various open source communities for 9 years now.

Calling all Xen developers. A Xen.org hackathon was announced by Ian Campbell on the Xen devolopers list to be held at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK between March 23-25, 2011. The aim of the event is to give developers the opportunity to meet face to face to discuss

Xen.org is pleased to announce the XCP 1.0 beta release. Download it here: http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/Software/xcp-1.0-beta/ New features since XCP 0.5 include: Xen-3.4.2 Linux-2.6.32 VMPR – VM protection and recovery (scheduled backup of VMs via snapshot/export) XenCenter

Quick update on the community manager search. We’ve interviewed a number of candidates, all of whom look very promising. We’re going to be discussing them soon, and hopefully sending out offers within a reasonable time frame after that. So stay tuned!

Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine Robert Gallagher It is with great reluctance that I announce my departure from Xen.org as your community manager. Working with the many community members from around the world over the past three years has been a highlight in my career and