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As part of the 2010 Annual Xen.org survey response, I intend to push out more developer related content to the community via this blog… From: Dave Scott Re: Compressing VM Exports by Default In XCP a VM “export” is a serialized VM, including metadata and usually raw disk blocks. The format is a very simple tar file (really [...]

It is time to start thinking about our 2nd XCP meeting for the Xen.org XCP team.  The last meeting was held on May 25, 2010 at 14:00 UTC. Notes are at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings.  For the next meeting I hope to schedule a time that is better for our Asian participants so please contact me with a [...]

Based on the 2010 Annual Xen.org Survey I intend to take several actions to address the significant issues raised by the community. I plan to start with the Xen.org Wiki (http://wiki.xensource.com) and look at a better layout to simplify navigation for new and experienced Wiki users. Once I have a new design complete, I will [...]

The tag 4.0.1-rc3 has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg

For those of you living or visiting Slovenia in late September, I recommend attending the Poslovna Linux Konferenca in Sept 27-28, 2010 in Portoroz. George Dunlap will be presenting the following: Title: Xen – Open Source and the Virtualization ... [More] Revolution Summary: This talk will introduce the virtualization revolution, showing how virtual machine technology has been successfully applied [...] [Less]

Welcome to the Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News Xen.org Annual Community Survey Completed – ... [More] http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/06/09/2010-xen-org-annual-community-survey-results/ Xen User Group Los Angeles - http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/06/08/xen-user-group-los-angeles/ Xen Summit 2011 [...] [Less]

Next week I will be travelling in time to work 5 hours ahead of my usual Eastern Standard Time. During the next three weeks I will magically accomplish all my tasks 5 hours earlier than I normally do. Please keep this time travel in mind when contacting me over the next few weeks. I will [...]

As you know, there is interest in having the first Xen Summit in 2011 in Europe instead of North America. To get a better sense of what the community would like I created two surveys. An open full community survey still running at ... [More] http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/309833/Xen-Summit-2011-Event-Location-Survey until June 28th and a survey directly to all the attendees [...] [Less]

Day 2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest was much less crowded at the booth than Day 1 as Fedora held a community day and Drupal held a camp all day which kept the crowds busy. I did take some video of the event with a brief tour of the sponsor tables including the Xen.org table with [...]

Day 1 of the SouthEast LinuxFest is over and I thought the community might like a recap of today’s activities: Presented the Xen.org history, mission, various technologies, and ways to join our effort to a filled room of about 115 people ; there were a number of good questions from the audience on the KVM announcement [...]