Xen Project (XAPI)

We have another Xen document day come up next Monday. Xen Document Days are for people who care about Xen Documentation and want to improve it. We introduced Documentation Days, because working on documentation in parallel with like minded-people, is just more fun than working alone! Everybody who can contribute is welcome to join! For [...]

Since early January I have been tracking the status of work left to do before 4.2 by posting a weekly roundup of the remaining blockers and “nice to haves”. You can find these in the xen devel list archives, posted most Monday mornings. Last week I decided that the TODO list had reached the point [...]

It took me a while to write up my impressions from the first Oracle hosted Hackathon last week: I have to apologize for not being timelier. First, I wanted to thank Oracle for hosting the event and providing a beautiful venue in Santa Clara. Special thanks go to Doan Nguyen who did all the hard [...]

The XCP team would like to announce Project Zeus, our port of the XCP toolstack to Fedora and CentOS (through the EPEL). This is a follow-on to Project Kronos, which brought the XCP toolstack to Debian-based systems. This will give users the ability to do ‘yum install xcp-xapi’ to build a system that is functionally [...]

Virtual Build a Cloud Day will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying ... [More] cloud computing infrastructure. I’ll be presenting the XCP talk tomorrow: http://cloudstack.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events/viewevent/52-virtual-build-a-cloud-day-session-1.html#Deshane For more details [...] [Less]

Just a quick reminder that the next Xen Document Day is coming up. Xen Document Days are always on the last Monday of each month (unless they clash with another Xen event). Document Days are all-day on-line IRC event with the aim to Improve user documentation Improve developer documentation, including the creation of man pages, [...]

Back in november we announced our effort to port Xen to the ARM Cortex-A15 / ARMv7 with virt extensions. I am very pleased to say that as of xen-unstable.hg changeset 24741:fb71a97fe339 the initial patches for this port are now part of the mainline Xen code base and will be release (albeit in highly experimental form) [...]

XCP 1.5 Beta is now available. Go to http://bit.ly/x6UBbY to download.

Just a quick reminder that it is only 4 weeks to the Oracle hosted Xen Hackathon in Santa Clara, CA, USA (March 6-8). More than half of the available spaces have gone. What is a Xen Hackathon The aim of the Hackathon is to give developers the opportunity to meet face to face to discuss [...]

I wanted to remind vendors in the Xen community and individuals looking for jobs, that Xen.org has a Jobs in the community page. In the last three months, four positions were filled. If you are a vendor which is active in the Xen community and are looking to fill a position, follow the instructions on [...]