Xen Project (Hypervisor)

Xen folks… I have completed the statistic gathering and analysis for Xen.org in Q1. The pdf of the data with January, February, and March results is here. Here are some data highlights for Q1: Web Hits on Xen.org over 75,000 for each month with a spike in March XCP Home page moved to #5 most viewed page in [...]

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 Xen 4.0.0 release [...]

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing VHPC’10 as part of Euro-Par 2010, Island of Ischia-Naples, Italy ... [More] ================================================================= Date: August 31, 2010 Euro-Par 2009: http://www.europar2010.org/ Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts: April 4, 2010 (extended) Full Paper: June 19, 2010 (extended) Scope: Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex infrastructure [...] [Less]

4.0.0-rc9 is now tagged in http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg This is almost certainly the last RC, and will become the 4.0.0 release around the middle of next week. Please test!

As the community manager for the open source Xen.org community, home of the Xen Hypervisor, I am often asked about competition from proprietary and open source hypervisors as well as questions about Xen’s viability as an open source community. Many people are seeing the rapid emergence of KVM from Red Hat as the golden child [...]

From Simon’s blog post at http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/03/29/Open+Source+does+not+mean+Interoperable+or+Compatible Derrick Harris at GigaOm has written an interesting, and unfortunately confusing piece which illustrates the frequent ... [More] confusion between openness, interoperability and compatibility. His thesis is that the open source nature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and cloud management software such as Eucalyptus is a powerful change for the better, [...] [Less]

The Hosted Xen project (HXEN) in Xen.org is currently looking for new developers to take part in future efforts such as the Linux port. The source and binaries for the Windows and Mac OSX version are currently available and are working fine for many users. I have spoken to the two developers who worked on [...]

I am pleased to announce that Bernard Golden has agreed to present his views on open source cloud computing and virtualization as the Day 2 keynote for Xen Summit North America at AMD.  Bernard is the current CEO of HyperStratus, a leading ... [More] virtualization cloud computing consultancy, the Virtualization and Cloud Computing Advisor for CIO Magazine, [...] [Less]

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 Xen 4.0.0 release [...]

Great post in xen-users today from Thiago Martins… Running Xen 4.0.0-rc8 with Linux 2.6.32.10 paravirt_ops    dom0 on top of Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64bits This is a quick guide to help us to try the new Xen. Also I have the composite window manager on top of the Xen! With full 3D support! To achieve this I do: 1- Install your [...]