Re: [Publicity] Blog update, week of Jan 13, 2014

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/2014 15:05, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 01/16/2014 11:09 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Here's the first blog update for the New Year! :-)
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Last posts have been:
> >   - Me, about the Xen talks @ next FOSDEM
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This week, I'd like to publish a piece from Jim Fehlig about the libxl
> > driver in libvirt.
> >
> > Here's a draft. I scheduled it for tomorrow morning, so speak your mind
> > before that time:
> > http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2014/01/17/libvirt-support-for-xens-new-libxenlight-toolstack/?preview=true&preview_id=8648&preview_nonce=3a12432c91 
> >
> > Jim, first of all, thanks a lot for your great work. I've done a few
> > style eits (links, picture, etc.), as agreed in a private e-mail thread.
> > Feel free to have a look and suggest (or do it yourself) any
> > modification.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Next week, it will be me again. I'll either send out (after refining it
> > a bit, as suggested in this list), the Gentoo Xen mainainer interview,
> > or something else I'm preparing.
> >
> > For the upcoming weeks (i.e., the on of Jan 27th, of Feb 1st, etc),
> > here's how the updated blog authors pipeline looks like:
> >
> >   + George Dunlap (week of Jan 27th)
> >   + Julien Grall (week of Feb 1st)
> >   + Roger Pau Monne (the week after)
> >
> > So, I was thinking, George, what do you think about a report of the
> > conference you were attending/giving talk at these latest weeks? In
> > which case, if you're fine with it, it's probably better to have it ASAP
> > (as it makes sense to have the report close to the event). If that is
> > the case, you can have next week, my stuff can be postponed without much
> > trouble.
> Thinking about it, I'm not sure exactly what would be interesting to 
> say about the conference.  It was very Huawei-centric.  They have a 
> cloud-based product they are selling in China.  They are interested in 
> NFV, and in mobile.  Probably the most surprising thing was the degree 
> of push for containers as a "virtualization" solution, with James 
> Bottomley trying to claim that containers were as secure as virtual 
> machines.
I agree. An article about containers and how they stack up with Xen may 
be interesting at some point
> Lars, was there anything in particular you thought would be worth 
> reporting on / describing?
> Other possibilities for blog topic this week include:
> * My talk, blog-ified (Why virtualization in your car?)
Could be interesting. Maybe one for Dario as well.

> * A description of the populate-on-demand feature, as many people seem 
> confused about what it is and how it works. :-)
Seems like the best option at  the moment

Lars

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