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

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/27/2014 04:33 PM, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 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.
The advantage of this one is that I basically have the text of the talk 
written down already, so it should be a lot quicker to get up. :-)
> > * 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
I'll take a look at it tomorrow and see how I get on.  I may fall back 
to the other one if it looks like it may take too much time.
 -George

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