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16 Nov 2007 12:00 AM EST
Blogging the Xen Summit
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posted by Barry Flanagan

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.

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  1. Nov 25, 2007

    Anonymous says:

    This is interesting info. Are the presentations from this meeting available yet?...

    This is interesting info. Are the presentations from this meeting available yet? Is this the first one? If not, are the slides from earliers meetings available?

  2. Nov 26, 2007

    Anonymous says:

    The presentations from the past Xen Summits (there have been five total, includi...

    The presentations from the past Xen Summits (there have been five total, including the most recent) are available on the new Xen.org website at http://xen.org/xensummit/ . The slides from the Fall 2007 Xen Summit I attended have not yet been posted. As soon they are, I will update the blog post.

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