<h2>Cost and Registration </h2>
<p>The Event is totally free. Only online registration is required to participate.</p>
<h2>When and where is Xen Day?</h2>
- <p>Xen Day takes place on Nob 9th from 9:00 - 13:00.</p>
+ <p>Xen Day takes place on November 9th from 9:00 - 13:00.</p>
<p>Room Lanzarote (<a href="http://www.fira-palace.com/content/documentacio/plano_convenciones.pdf">map</a>)<br />
2nd Floor<br />
- Hotel Fira Palace<br />
+ <a href="http://www.fira-palace.com/">Hotel Fira Palace</a><br />
Avinguda de Rius i Taulet<br />
08004 Barcelona<br />
Spain</p>
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+ <h3>Virtualization in the Cloud: Featuring Xen and XCP (Lars Kurth)</h3>
+ <p>The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed,
+ we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, Xen powers the
+ largest clouds in production. This talk introduces Xen, XCP and introduces their architectures.
+ The talk will shine some light challenges such as securing the cloud, and will introduce the
+ concept of domain disaggregation as an approach to increase security, robustness and scalability.
+ We will conclude with an update on exciting developments in the Xen community and their implications
+ for building open source clouds.</p>
+
+ <h3>Xen on ARM Cortex A15 (Ian Campbell, Xen Committer and Linux Maintainer)</h3>
+ <p>During the last few months of 2011 the Xen Community started an effort to port Xen to ARMv7 and ARMv8
+ with virtualization extensions, using the Cortex A15 processor as reference platform.The new Xen port is
+ exploiting this set of hardware capabilities to run guest VMs in the most efficient way possible while
+ keeping the ARM specific changes to the hypervisor and the Linux kernel to a minimum.</p>
+ <p>Developing the new port we took the chance to remove legacy concepts like PV or HVM guests and only support
+ a single kind of guests that is comparable to "PV on HVM" in the Xen X86 world.</p>
+ <p>This talk will explain the reason behind this and other design choices that we made during the early
+ development process and it will go through the main technical challenges that we had to solve in order to
+ accomplish our goal. Notable examples are the way Linux guests issue hypercalls and receive event channels
+ notifications from Xen.</p>
+
+ <h3>Xen 4.2 and xl (Ian Jackson, Xen Committer)</h3>
+ <p>The Xen 4.2 release contains a production-ready version of the new libxl toolstack library and its "xl"
+ domain management utility. We are recommending that everyone switch away from the obsolete and
+ unmaintained xm/xend toolstack. In this presentation we will summarise the key differences, discuss how to
+ do the upgrade, and (network permitting) do a short demo.</p>
+
+ <h3>Xen Benchmarks (Roger Pau Monne, Xen Developer)</h3>
+ <p>Presentation of results regarding benchmarks performed against KVM and Xen virtualization platforms.
+ The benchmarks used to realize this comparison are based on workloads that try to mimic real uses of those
+ products. Possible improvements to overcome the limitations found will also be discussed.</p>
+ <h3>Meet the Xen Developers</h3>
+ <p>This is an open session, that you can use to ask the Xen Developers any question you want. From solving
+ concrete problems that you may have, to discussing the evolution of Xen.</p>
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