blog.xen.org » 2008 » December
Tan Li Ching
The OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine
As first post in this community blog, I would like to introduce one of the new projects within the Xen Community. We started OpenNebula a few years ago in order to provide an open-source alternative to commercial tools for the dynamic management of VMs on distributed resources. OpenNebula provides an efficient, dynamic and scalable management of [...]
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by imllorente
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WordPress Upgrade to 2.7
I just completed the WordPress upgrade to 2.7. Please let me know if you see any issues.
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by Stephen Spector
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Oracle joins the Xen Advisory Board
The Xen community is pleased to announce the addition of Oracle to the Xen Advisory Board. Oracle joins seven other leading enterprise vendors to offer expertise and leadership to promote the Xen hypervisor as the industry standard in open source virtualization. Because Oracle is a recognized industry leader, the Xen.org community will surely gain valuable [...]
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Announcements, Xen.org
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Xen Document Project Update
For
those of you curious about the Xen Document project, you can see the
latest at
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen3.xDocumentUpdateProject. All
documentation requests are posted on the site along with people who are
working on the updates and status of those changes. Please contact me
if you have any questions.
As an update on the Xen 3.3 User Guide, [...]
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Development by Stephen Spector
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VTDS’09: EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization Technology for Dependable Systems
VTDS’09: EuroSys Workshop on Virtualization Technology for
Dependable Systems
Co-located with EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany Tuesday, 31st March,
2009 http://vtds09.di.fc.ul.pt
Important dates:
* Submission of contributions: Jan. 19, 2009
* Notification of acceptance: Feb. 16, 2009
* Camera-ready contributions: Mar. 2, 2009
* Workshop: Mar. 31, 2009
Virtualization has a long tradition in computer systems research and
has experienced a strong revival [...]
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by Stephen Spector
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2008 Xen.org Community Yearly Review
Xen Community:
As I finish my first year as community manager for Xen.org, I thought I
would take a few moments to highlight some of the community’s
accomplishments for 2008. If you want more details, I have added a
relevant web link or you can contact me directly. I would also like to
thank each of [...]
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by Stephen Spector
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Plaxo Social Networking Xen Group
For those of you in Plaxo, I have setup a new Xen Virtualization group at http://xen.plaxogroups.com. Feel free to request membership in this group.
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by Stephen Spector
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Ian Pratt PodCast with Doug Brown
For
those of you who want to hear Ian’s latest comments on Xen, etc - Doug
Brown of www.dabcc.com has just posted a PodCast at
http://www.dabcc.com/podcastdetail.aspx?id=75.
From VMBlog.com
(http://vmblog.com/archive/2008/12/15/podcast-with-xen-open-source-virtualization-founder-and-citrix-vp-ian-pratt.aspx)
n episode 67, Douglas Brown interviews Ian Pratt, Vice President of
Advanced Products for Citrix Systems, Inc. Ian is also the co-founder
of XenSource, the company Citrix bought [...]
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Announcements, Xen History,
Xen.org
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Security through Isolation in Xen
Hi all,
Together with some other coworkers we have been working on a reference
implementation of the security through isolation concept using
virtualization. This project is using Xen to provide a contained
virtualized environment where malware can run without affecting the
whole system.
The goal for this project is to foster the usage of virtualization
technology in [...]
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Study, Xen
Development by gcolsani
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2 New Projects on Community Projects Page
I have added 2 new projects to the community projects page:
Eucalyptus Project - (Contact: Rich Wolski)
Definition: Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your
Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure
for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters.
Links: Project Home Page
OpenNebula.org Project - (Contact: Ruben Santiago Montero)
Definition:OpenNebula is an open source [...]
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