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Xen Summit Asia 2009 is being hosted by Intel in Shanghai, China this year and it is never too early to think about attending.
The event is scheduled for Nov 19-20, 2009 and the expected costs are as follows:
International Attendee - $175 US
Chinese National Attendee - $0 US
Continue to the announcement:
Xen Summit Asia 2009 - Never Too Early to Plan
Next month, the Xen.org open source community is hosting our latest Xen Summit at Oracle's HQ in Redwood City, CA. This event brings together the leading developers of the Xen hypervisor as well as researchers and users who leverage the Xen hypervisor. For two days, you will have the opportunity to listen to and interact with a global group of industry leaders in hypervisor virtualization.
The event is planned for February 24 and 25th and includes 2 days of highly interactive discussion, an evening out at the Computer History Museuem, and other Xen Summit firsts. Registration is only $215 and is now open at https://www.regonline.com/xs_oracle.
More information on this event is available at http://www.xen.org/community/xensummit.html with local hotel information and the event agenda soon to be published. If you have any questions about this event, please contact Stephen Spector at stephen.spector@xen.org.
In addition to the scheduled sessions for the 23rd and 24th,
http://xen.org/files/xensummitagenda.pdf
they have added a NEW! track to be held on the 22nd
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix08/training/tutonefile.html#s4
Introduction to the Open Source Xen Hypervisor
Todd Deshane and Patrick F. Wilbur, Clarkson University; Stephen Spector, Citrix
Who should attend:
System administrators and architects who are interested in deploying the open source Xen hypervisor in a production environment. No prior experience with Xen is required; however, a basic knowledge of Linux is helpful.
The Xen hypervisor offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures, and has been used to virtualize a wide range of guest operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems. It is widely regarded as a strategically compelling alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms and hypervisors for x86 and IA64 platforms.
Take back to work:
How to build and deploy the Xen hypervisor.
Topics include:
• Xen architecture overview
• Building a Xen hypervisor from Xen.org
• Installation and configuration
• Virtual machine creation and operation
• Performance: tools and methodology
• Best practices using Xen
Continue to Xen Summit: http://xen.org/xensummit/
Anyone interested in learning more about the open source Xen solution built by the community at Xen.org can attend the North American Xen Summit in Boston, MA, June 23 - 24 as part of the USENIX 2008 Annual Technical Conference. The USENIX event is from June 22 - 27 with training sessions from the 22 - 24 and a conference from the 25 - 27. Plans are underway to host a day long Xen training session for the 22nd and include sessions from Xen Summit in the USENIX conference. A discount will also be offered to all Xen Summit attendees interested in going to the USENIX Annual Technical Conference.
More information on the event and registration information will be available soon; in the mean time, mark your calendars. Also, a European Xen Summit is also in the plans for later this year in London. Stay tuned...
In my blog post from the Xen Summit, I promised to follow up on the Xen Summit once the presentations were posted. Those presentations are now available on Xen.org. Here is a list of the presentations -
Introductory Comments and Xen Status/Roadmaps
Ian Pratt (Citrix, Cambridge), Project Status and Organization
Keir Fraser (Citrix, Cambridge), Roadmap and Releases
Xen Community: A Sampling of Status and Roadmaps
Todd Clayton (Sun), OpenSolaris, Xen and the xVM Project
Clyde Griffin (Novell), Novell Xen Roadmap
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (Citrix, Cambridge), Linux parvirtops status
Aron Griffix (HP), IA64 Update
Add One-half Xen and Stir Briskly
Mick Jordan (Sun), JavaGuest
Gerd Hoffman (Red Hat), Introducing Xenner (Abstract Only Available)
John Zulauf (Intel), Xen Extensions to Enable Modular/3P Device Emulation for HVM
Daniel Berrange(Red Hat), Directions for development & integration of Xen and QEMU
CPUs updates, scheduling, mobile
Tom Woller (AMD), AMD Update
Jun Nakajima (Intel), Intel Update
Scott Rixner (Rice University), Scheduling Pitfalls for I/O-intensive Guests
Sang-bum Suh, Secure Xen on ARM
Xen Networking
Greg Law (SolarFlare), The Convergence of Storage and Server Virtualization
Jose Renato Santos (HP), Netchannel2: Improving Xen Networking Performance
David Edmondson (Sun), OpenSolaris xVM Network Architecture
Xen Memory and Storage
Grzegorz Milos (Cambridge), Memory CoW in Xen
Hitoshi Matsumoto (Fujitsu), SCSI Support Status
Dutch T. Meyer (University of British Columbia), Parallax, A VM Storage Infrastruture
Xen Security
Vedvyas Shanbhogue(Intel), VIS:Virtualization-based Integrity Services
Derek Murray (University of Cambridge), Improving Xen security through domain-zero disaggregation
Joseph Cihula (Intel), Trusted Boot - Verifying the Xen Launch
Xen Deployment
Roman Marxer (Google) - A Xen Based High Availability Cluster)
Dave Lively (Virtual Iron), Running Xen Diskless
Brendan Cully (University of British Columbia), High Speed Checkpointing for High Availability
Donald Dugger (Intel), Updating Xen for the Client Environment
Padmashree K Apparao(Intel), Characterization and Analysis of a Server Consolidation Benchmark
Frank Martin (Oracle), Virtualization of Enterprise DataCenters Using Xen
As you can see from this list, there is wide industry participation in the Xen hypervisor open source project. In this Xen Summit alone there were six presentations from Intel, three presentations from Sun and Red Hat, and two from HP and three from Citrix. In the Spring 2007 Xen Summit, there were eight presentations by IBM, three presentations by HP, two presentations by AMD, three by Red Hat, and seven by XenSource/Citrix. The Xen Open Source hypervisor is pulling in the creativity, innovation, knowledge and experience of a wide range of industry heavyweights. This effort is completely focused on building a highly scalable, stable and a powerful 64 bit virtualization engine.
I will be blogging about some of the individual presentations form the Fall 2007 Xen Summit later.
I am sitting in the Auditorium of Bldg. #3 at the SUN Microsystems Campus in Santa Clara (by far the most impressive campus of any technology company that I have seen BTW) during a break for the Xen Summit.
There have been many very interesting presentations so far at the Xen Summit. All will be posted in the next few weeks for your review. Here are a few thoughts...
Ian Pratt, the original developer of Xen and one of the founders of XenSource, opened up with a roadmap. I missed most of this unfortunately due to a very late flight. Later, we heard from Mick Jordan from Sun Research about a completely Java based VM running on Xen called JavaGuest . Tom Woller of AMD and Jun Nakajima of Intel provided an update and road map for CPU assisted virtualization. Greg Law from SolarFlare gave a very intriguing presentation on using there 10GB Nic and their vNIC driver to greatly improve the Network and Disk I/O throughput in a Xen Environment (they show up to 3X improvement with lower CPU utilization) by directly accessing the hardware. Roman Maxer from Google talked about Ganeti, a new open source tool created by Google for high availability on open source Xen (and used on internal production systems).
I will have much more as the presentations are posted on our web site.