Hi, I had read on this thread - http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00759.html - (which is about a year old) about a Xen book being written. Any updates or others currently writing books on Xen? Thank you. -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but differentÂ… _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 13:23 -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: AFAIK some are being ''worked on'', but I have absolutely no idea when any of them will come to fruition. Xen is kind of unique in nature as subsequent versions make current versions immediately less desirable, and many things are prone to changing in between versions in particular with HVM which is one of the most popular uses to begin with. Even more so than you''d see with an OS itself. "Mastering FC4" is on the shelves even though the information in it was dated prior to it even being published because many people used FC4 even though newer versions were available. Xen 3.0.2 got dropped like an orphan in the snow. Prior to that 3.0, Prior to that 2.0.7. Documenting Xen (Period) is a challenge, old documentation still in circulation being applied to current versions is a thorn, and new documentation is prone to being dated every 45 days. I suppose some things have settled down to the point where books about Integrating Xen could be cooked up with a degree of version ambiguity and even hinting that by the time you read this more things may be possible. As far as Xen ''The Bible'', its still very much history in the making. Most people are just blogging anyway, which keeps the information free, plentiful and if your diligent, a little more current than a heavy paper back :) Best, --Tim> Hi, > I had read on this thread - > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00759.html > - (which is about a year old) about a Xen book being written. Any > updates or others currently writing books on Xen? Thank you. > -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@fastmail.fm >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Mathew Brown wrote:> I had read on this thread - > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00759.html > - (which is about a year old) about a Xen book being written. Any > updates or others currently writing books on Xen? Thank you.one of the other prgmr.com guys and I have got a contract w/ no-starch press to write a Xen book targeted at the mid-level Linux SysAdmin. We''re not moving nearly as fast as we had hoped, partly because this is our first book and partly because we have jobs. We were going to get it out in time to ride the RHEL5 marketing push; but it looks like RedHat has it''s stuff together more than we do, as they released yesterday and we did not. As another poster mentioned, Xen is still very much the moving target, and that also makes things more difficult. Much of the (very good, imho) documentation put out by the Cambridge team is out of date. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> AFAIK some are being ''worked on'', but I have absolutely no idea whenany> of them will come to fruition.Two are available for "pre-order" on Amazon. Joe. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I am one of the people working on a Xen book ("Professional Xen", for
Wrox). Xen, and virtualization in general, are more of a moving target
that many of the sysadmin topics I''ve written about in other books.
However, that just makes it more fun, spiced with occasional frustration
when it seems that everything you know about a specific option or
command is wrong (or has at least mutated). However, I think that tech
books written by techies are still quite useful, even modulo software
changes - the conceptual underpinnings remain the same, and
planning/setup/admin is a big part of the game.
A German publisher has already released a book on Xen - "Xen**3"
(sorry
for the C notation - that''s mine) by Andrej Radonic and Frank Meyer,
from Franzis Verlag GmbH as part of their Franzis Professional Series.
Bill
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I am working on a xen book for Packt. But like the others mentioned Xen is a fast moving target, which makes it quite a challenge. I think towards the later half of the year you will probably see one of these xen books out. -prabhakar _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Hello, - There should be one which will be available really soon (at least according to amazon.com- it will be available in April 1, 2007). "Virtualization with Xen(tm): Including Xenenterprise, Xenserver, and Xenexpress" (Paperback) by David E Williams (Author) Syngress Publishing (April 1, 2007) see: http://www.amazon.com/Virtualization-Xen-Including-Xenenterprise-Xenexpress/dp/1597491675/ref=sr_1_2/104-7875967-0775930?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1174048569&sr=8-2 Regards, Ian On 3/15/07, Mathew Brown <mathewbrown@fastmail.fm> wrote:> Hi, > I had read on this thread - > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00759.html > - (which is about a year old) about a Xen book being written. Any > updates or others currently writing books on Xen? Thank you. > -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@fastmail.fm > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different… > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Thank you for the update. Hope your book project gets released some time this soon :) Tim, thanks for your input. Luke S. Crawford wrote:> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Mathew Brown wrote: >> I had read on this thread - >> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2006-03/msg00759.html >> - (which is about a year old) about a Xen book being written. Any >> updates or others currently writing books on Xen? Thank you. > > one of the other prgmr.com guys and I have got a contract w/ no-starch press to write a Xen book targeted at the mid-level Linux SysAdmin. We''re not moving nearly as fast as we had hoped, partly because this is our first book and partly because we have jobs. We were going to get it out in time to ride the RHEL5 marketing push; but it looks like RedHat has it''s stuff together more than we do, as they released yesterday and we did not. > > As another poster mentioned, Xen is still very much the moving target, and that also makes things more difficult. Much of the (very good, imho) documentation put out by the Cambridge team is out of date.-- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
I dont know if it''s too late or not but i propose my help for this book if someboby want!!> > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users