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Welcome to the new Xen.org weekly newsletter with a variety of information to keep you updated on all things Xen. This newsletter is an upgrade from my previous weekly communications and is meant to offer a broader scope of Xen.org activities. Please feel free to contact me with suggestions for the newsletter. Xen News Appliance for Web [...]

Tag ‘3.4.3-rc4′ has been added to http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg Would be nice to get this out by the end of the month. Please test!

The open source xvp project has for the last year provided a set of tools for managing Xen Cloud Platform and XenServer virtual machines from web browsers, with built in VM console access based on VNC. Facilities include VM shutdown, boot, reboot, suspend, resume, live migrate and virtual DVD drive management. Users can [...]

For those of you looking for a map or directions to Xen Summit, here you go…. Location: Commons Building at AMD HQ Commons Building Map I will also be posting directions from AMD HQ to the Dave and Buster’s where the traditional Day 1 party is being held shortly.

I have been looking over the Teaching Open Source organizations web site (http://teachingopensource.org) and think that Xen.org needs to take part in this initiative. Based on the number of projects within Xen.org that are listed for the Google ... [More] Summer of Code (see http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XAPI_Developer_Guide?highlight=%28%28XAPI+project+suggestions%29%29) I believe that we can easily benefit from having more college student [...] [Less]

Have you signed up at https://www.regonline.com/xen_summit_amd for Xen Summit yet? Yes, well then ignore the rest of this post and I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks. If not, please read on… This year’s Xen Summit at AMD looks to be a great event for technologists and developers interested in not just the [...]

From Vern Burke: I’m officially releasing the first beta of my Xen Cloud Control System package! This is a web server based control and operations system for Xen Cloud Platform that will work with any device with a browser (I run my cloud from my ... [More] BlackBerry ). The package can be downloaded from http://www.swiftwatertel.com/PACKAGES/xcc-0.1-040610.tar.gz . This is [...] [Less]

Today Invisible Things Lab has announced the Qubes OS project. Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. Currently the project is in the alpha [...]

The SouthEast LinuxFest team has released a partial speakers list (http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/node/88) for their upcoming event June 11-13, 2010 in Spartanburg, SC. If you review the list, you will see that Xen.org will be speaking at the ... [More] event as well as hosting a booth as a Silver Sponsor. I am still looking for community members interested in [...] [Less]

I am compiling all the current submitted topics for Xen Summit into a single Abstract document for those interested in learning more about the sessions at the event. The current document is available here. Please remember that this is not the complete list of topics but a good collection of some of the sessions being [...]