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Welcome to a new feature in the Xen.org community – developer video interviews!
The first video in the series is a 13 minute interview with Keir Fraser.
http://www.xen.org/media/Movies/DeveloperSeries/KeirFraser.AVI (145 MB)
Vimeo.com Video Embedded:
Xen.org Keir Fraser Developer Interview July 2, 2009 from xencom_mgr on Vimeo.
Please send me any developers you are interested in having me interview.
Posted in Community, Xen Development, Xen.org Promotion.
– July 2, 2009
From xen-devel:
We will hold a Linux IO controller Mini-Summit in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009 — day before the 9th Linux kernel summit.
This is a good opportunity to meet face-to-face to discuss issues and directions for developing IO controller.
Details of the summit are still sketchy, so suggestions for agenda topics are welcome. Please e-mail to me or post on the wiki page at http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/ioband/wiki/iosummit (You need an account on SourceForge.net to edit this page.) The final agenda will be formed by consensus of the attendees.
Please join the summit if you are interested.
Thanks,
Ryo Tsuruta
ryov@valinux.co.jp
– July 1, 2009
I completed the new Xen Directions page on Xen.org at http://www.xen.org/xendirections/xendirections_june09.html. Not all the slides and videos are availalable yet as I need approval from the speakers to post both; however there is some interesting information already available. As the speakers get back to me over the next few days I will update the page links.
All the presentation slides are in English and the only video in German is Frank Kohler from Citrix; however, his slides are excellent and worth a look.
Posted in Community, Events, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 30, 2009
From Keir:
Fifth release candidate is tagged as 3.4.1-rc5 in the usual place. Please test!
Posted in Community, Xen Development, Xen Support, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 29, 2009
I am busy working on putting slides and videos up from the Xen Directions event held this past Saturday at LinuxTAG in Berlin. To hold you over, here are some images from the event.
Ian Pratt – http://www.box.net/shared/24vox5dxi9
Bjorn Brundret - http://www.box.net/shared/vovzgq4gt8
From Twitter @nheinemans:
OpenNebula Pitch – http://www.box.net/shared/s8eul1xkx0
Stephen Spector Welcome – http://www.box.net/shared/0h9×2qhqqb
Posted in Community, Events, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 29, 2009
From the ConVirt team…
Some of the highlights of this release are:
Virtual Network Management
Support for creating isolated and NAT-based networks on managed hosts. Each virtual network can have a pre-defined IP range, with automatic DHCP provisioning of IP’s for all attached VM’s.
Automation using CLI
This release of ConVirt includes a preview version of CLI. Most common operations available via ConVirt GUI can now be done using a command line. This enables users to automate their management tasks across the whole virtualized deployment.
Ability to add disks to running VM
This release adds ability to add disks to running Xen Virtual machines.
Additional Certified Configurations
RHEL 5.3, CentOS 5.3 and Ubuntu 9.04 are added to the list of supported distributions. For a complete list of supported configurations, please visit the supported configurations page.
Complete Details: http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-11-is-now-available/
Posted in Community, Partner Announcements, Xen Development, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 25, 2009
In keeping with my occasional interview with companies that use open source Xen – I would like to introduce Thomas Morgan from Zerigo, inc.
Who is Thomas Morgan?
I’m the CEO and founder of Zerigo, Inc. My personal interests, in the realm of technology, include automation, virtualization, APIs and integration, and user experience. I’m able to work on all of those these days and it’s a lot of fun.
Tell me more about Zerigo?
Zerigo is focused on higher-performance, higher-reliability hosting.
Our flagship offering is our Xen VPS hosting. We also offer managed DNS hosting and server monitoring–both with feature sets catering to VPS users (whether on our VPS service or not). More broadly, we tend to offer services and features that are desirable to more technically- inclined users. To that end, we try to listen really well too.
How do you use open source Xen?
It powers our VPS service, so that’s pretty significant by itself. We also use it for a ton of our internal operations too, as we gain operational efficiency from the flexibility of a virtual environment.
Why is open source Xen important?
Open source software is such a market disruptor, I think people are crazy to ignore it–that includes virtualization software. I find the culture around open source projects to be substantially different than traditional commercial software. Open source software projects tend to be designed to be used with other products and are more easily used and extended in ways not originally envisioned. For Zerigo this is crucial as we continue to bring new features and new takes on old features to the marketplace. It’d be much harder to lead in that kind of way if our hands were tied by the typical closed source software stack.
How do you contribute to the community?
We encourage everyone at Zerigo to participate in giving back to the various communities that enable our success–many of which are communities surrounding the variety of open source projects we use. I personally tend toward helping answer people’s questions about using Xen or whatever other project they’re asking about. Most frequently this is in an IRC channel or blog posting, but sometimes it’s in mailing lists or forums too. I also try to help in identifying bugs and fixing them. We’re always up for providing resources to help worthy open source projects too.
Do you have any offer for the Xen community?
How about 10% off our VPS services? Promo code is xenorg10.
Posted in Community, Partner Announcements, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 25, 2009
Xen Community:
As many of you know, the current www.xen.org website requires a great deal of work to keep updated as it consists of a series of html text files. Last year, I worked with several community members to create a better layout within the existing structure to assist web users in finding information in a sensible manner.
I am now taking the next step in porting the existing web structure to a hosted model where I am able to edit and manipulate the site without text files and a great deal of CSS knowledge. This new tool also allows for simple design changes with a point and click and tighter integration with social networking tools.
Please take a look at the new site http://xenhypervisor.squarespace.com/ and add your feedback in the Comments or directly to me.
Finally, please remember that not all sites such as the Wiki, Mailing Lists, or Bugzilla have the new look & feel as that requires additional effort and I want to get community buy-in on the new site first.
Posted in Community, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 24, 2009
This video uses code_swarm to visualise the development of the Xen project. It shows commits to xen-unstable.hg. Each dot represents a file. New files appear in a random place, and with each commit they get brighter and move towards the person making the change.
The colours represent a fairly arbitrary division of the code into more-or-less equal-sized areas. Feel free to suggest better divisions, and better colour values too.
The names are pulled out of the “Signed-off-by” comments using a small script. Otherwise it looked as though Keir was doing all the work!
I’ve done my best to identify names that appear in more than one form, but there are bound to be ones I’ve missed. There are also a lot of people listed only by email address. Again, corrections are welcome.
Posted in Xen Development, Xen History, Xen.org Promotion.
– June 24, 2009
From Keir:
New release candidates are tagged:
http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.3-testing.hg tagged 3.3.2-rc3 http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-3.4-testing.hg tagged 3.4.1-rc4
Please test! I hope to release later this week.
Posted in Community, Xen Development.
– June 23, 2009
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