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The first release candidate of the Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) version 0.5 is now available for testing from: http://www.xen.org/products/cloud_source_0.5.html XCP-0.5 is intended to be a *stable* release, suitable for long-term production use. Please download this release candidate and give it a thorough workout!

From Chris Smowton on xen-devel… About 4-5 months ago, I wrote some userland libraries to go against James Harper’s PV drivers for Windows Xen guests (http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv). These provide a Xenstore, event channel and ... [More] userland page granting interface very similar to those provided to Linux apps. I sent patches to James some months ago, but hearing no [...] [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 Location Survey [...] [Less]

The new Xen.org mascot has received many positive responses from within the community and I am pleased with the reaction as it took a few months and the longer a project like this lasts, the more you worry. Anyway, now that we have a mascot, do we need a name? I have called the image, [...]

For those of you in the Greenville, SC area be sure to stop by the SouthEast LinuxFest this weekend to visit the Xen.org booth and attend my presentation, Virtualization the Open Source Way With Xen at 1:00pm on Saturday June 12th.  I will have Xen pens and candy (got good stuff for this event) at [...]

RC2 is tagged as 4.0.1-rc2 at http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg Please test.

The results are in from the 2010 Annual Community Survey…here. For comparison purposes, the 2009 results are here. Thanks to everyone for participating in the survey and helping to give us all a view of areas for improvement as well as areas we are doing well. I will be contacting all the people who submitted [...]

There are several new items available in the Xen.org Store with the Xen Panda mascot. If you see an item that you would like, but is not listed please let me know and I can add it for you.

Portuguese: Ola, Sou Sergio, aluno da Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo – Brasil e estou participando GSoC (Google Summer of Code). Meu projeto é a integração do Xen Cloud Platform com o DRBD e o responsável é Dave Scott. Ao final do projeto ... [More] , pretendemos ter uma forma simples de gerenciar VMs com DRBD e se possível facilitar configurações [...] [Less]

I am proud to announce the formation of the first Xen User Group in the United States – Xen User Group LA. The group is being led by Matthew Sacks of The Bitsource and has just announced their first meeting with Jeremy Fitzhardinge as the guest speaker. The meeting is scheduled for July 30, 2010 [...]