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Hi Lars and Anil,

To get things started, below are some questions that will help surface more information for a news release. I believe a phone call to discuss these makes the most sense. Should we/do we need to include anyone else (ie. lead for Xen/ARM port?)?

Please provide technical explanation of new features. Why do these new features matter? Who benefits from these updates? Are any of these first, best, only features that are unique to Mirage?

- the Xen/ARM port (lead: Thomas Leonard)
- Irmin storage integration (lead: Thomas Gazagnaire, Xenstore lead: Dave Scott)
- Name resolver for distributed computation (lead: Anil Madhavapeddy)

With the 2.0 release, how does Mirage stack up against other Cloud OSes?

In this blog, http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/751156-are-cloud-operating-systems-the-next-big-thing- Xen wrote that a big challenge for Cloud Operating Systems is the fact that today most cloud providers do not provide support for very small, high density VM deployments. Two things need to happen to resolve this. Hypervisors need to be able to run thousands of VMs on large hosts: this is something which is being addressed for Xen by increasing the numbers of Virtual Machines that can be run on hosts (see David Vrabelâs talk on Unlimited Event Channels). Cloud billing resolution would also need to adapt to allow charging for much smaller Virtual Machines that run for very short times (less RAM, less disk space, VM lifespan measured in seconds rather than hours). What progress has been made on this front?

Anything noteworthy to add about the interns working on Mirage this summer?

Is anyone using or prototyping any new mobile or cloud applications yet with Mirage? Any examples of Mirage supporting the kinds of network application loads that run on cloud infrastructure?

Is Mirage OS still considered a Xen âincubated projectâ or has it graduated with this new release? Anything noteworthy to mention about new/different/number of contributors, pace of community development, etc.?

What's next for Mirage, goals, etc.?Â

Thanks,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Anil,
> in that case I will pull Sarah in. And we need to get going: OSCON is only a few weeks away
> OSCON is a great opportunity for a release as there will be press. Who do we need to pull in for putting PR together
> Are there any significant new contributors that came to the project?
> Are there any Portland local contributors Â(some of the Galois folks spring to mind)
> Etc
> Regards
> Lars
>
> On 11/06/2014 17:26, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Jun 2014, at 17:11, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> I saw that Anil submitted a Mirage OS 2.0 talk for the Developer Summit. I was wondering what the plans for the next release were. If it is around Dev Summit time, you should probably start coordinating with me and Sarah
>>
>> We were just chatting about this yesterday in the call! http://openmirage.org/wiki/weekly-2014-06-10
>>
>> The emerging plan for the OSCON Mirage 2.0 release is to have three key features:
>>
>> - the Xen/ARM port (lead: Thomas Leonard)
>> - Irmin storage integration (lead: Thomas Gazagnaire, Xenstore lead: Dave Scott)
>> - Name resolver for distributed computation (lead: Anil Madhavapeddy)
>>
>> All of these look in reasonable shape to get released by mid-July, although the release announcement could probably use a week or two to let the features sit in-tree before we tell everyone about it.
>>
>> Anyone have anything else on the stack? There are minor things such as 'add s-_expression_ tracing' that can be done on an ongoing basis.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Anil
>
>

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