Xen Project (XAPI)

I am taking a few days off for a family trip and will be back doing all things Xen next Wed, June 2. There will be no community newsletter this week but I will work to ensure that all mailing list emails are tracked at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenUpdate20100528 for this week. Have a great 2nd half of the [...]

For those of you unable to attend the XCP Community Meeting today, minutes of the meeting are available at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XCP_Monthly_Meetings. I will be scheduling another meeting next month to continue the community discussion of ... [More] XCP. Also, please note that XCP 0.5 will be releasing in a few weeks with the plan to release XCP 1.0 in [...] [Less]

It is time again, for the annual Xen.org community survey. I conducted this survey in 2009 and leveraged the results to make some changes in the way that information is presented on the website as well as how I plan events. This survey is a great way for the community to [...]

http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-4.0-testing.hg (tag 4.0.1-rc1) http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg (tag 3.4.3-rc7) Please test!

The first open community call on the XCP project is scheduled for Tuesday – May 25th at 14:00 UTC. This was the best time I could find to accommodate as many people as possible. More info on UTC 14:00 at http://www.dxing.com/utcgmt.htm. Dial-in ... [More] information is below: US Toll Free: 1.888.371.8921 Participant Code: 275279 International Toll Free Numbers: http://btconferencing.com/citrix/globalaccess/ [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 Summit North America at AMD – April 28-29 Post Event ... [More] Survey at http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2010/05/19/xen-summit-at-amd-post-event-survey/ Event Slides and Videos at http://www.xen.org/xensummit/xensummit_spring_2010.html Event Slides also [...] [Less]

Xen Directions South America planning is underway as the Xen.org community ventures into South America for our 1st community event.  The event is being held in conjunction with the Linux Foundation, LinuxCon Brazil at the WTC Convention Center in São Paulo, Brazil. Hotel accommodations are being planned for at the Sheraton São Paulo WTC [...]

BMW is using the Xen para virtualisation tool in SuSE Linux Enterprise Server to run test and development production systems. The company has deployed Xen to replace its ageing PA-Risc, Sun Sparc and IBM Power 4/5 Unix server hardware with industry-standard PC servers. The car maker worked with Novell to replace 1,400 [...]

The Open vSwitch team announced the availability of Open vSwitch 1.0.0.  Open vSwitch is a multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2 license. The goal is to build a production quality switch for VM environments that supports ... [More] standard management interfaces (e.g. NetFlow, RSPAN, ERSPAN, IOS-like CLI), and is open to programmatic extension [...] [Less]

It is time again, for the annual Xen.org community survey. I conducted this survey in 2009 and leveraged the results to make some changes in the way that information is presented on the website as well as how I plan events. This survey is a great way for the community to take a snapshot in [...]