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XenServer 6.0 is here!
On behalf of the entire XenServer product team at Citrix, I’m pleased to announce general availability of the XenServer 6.0 release.As the “6.0” naming implies, this is a MAJOR new release of the product. Here’s a look at what’s new:Architectural ChangesThe Boston release is based on the open-source Xen 4.1 hypervisor. XenServer is another commercial product to ship with the Xen 4 hypervisor. For ...
OVF and image maintenance
In the internet era of computing, it seems there are two types of computer systems: those that are being consistently updated and those that will eventually be infected with some type of malware. From Windows to Mac OS X to various flavors of Linux, the ecosystem around each widely deployed modern operating system has a prominent method for patching and updating the operating system and ...
OVF – The Road Left to Travel
The Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard has been under development at the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) for several years. The primary goal has been to define an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run in virtual machines." In short, OVF provides a standard way to store VM's and associated meta-data outside the context of ...