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Xen: The Next Generation

von Steven Hand (University of Cambridge)

Mittwoch, 30.05.2007, Saal 3: Berlin, 13:30-15:00 Uhr

In this talk I'll give an update on the development of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor. In the past year, we've seen several milestone releases of Xen, which have extended its capabilities to include better support for 'hardware virtual machines' as well as adding the ability to use forthcoming hardware extensions. In addition, considerable work has taken place to develop a rich off-box control API which allows Xen systems to be controlled via GUIs, CLIs or various scripting or imperative languages. In this talk I'll cover these developments; discuss key technical challenges and their solutions; and look toward the future of Xen.

Über den Autor Steven Hand:

Steven Hand is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (UK), where he is a leader of the Systems Research Group. His research interests lie in the areas of operating systems, networking, networking and distributed systems. He is one of the core developers of the Xen virtual machine monitor, and a founder of XenSource, Inc.

Steven received his BSc and MSc degrees from University College Dublin in 1992 and 1993 respectively, the latter being undertaken concurrent with a full-time position at Ericsson Research in Aachen, Germany. He left Ericsson in 1994 to join the PhD program at the University of Cambridge, and was awarded his PhD in 1998. He has been a Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge since 1998, and a faculty member at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory since January 2000. He currently advises 8 PhD students, and teaches both undergraduate- and masters-level systems courses.