Xen users - Mar 2008 - A Review of "Professional Xen Virtualization" by William von Hagen

Hello all.

For those of you who are not aware of this, WROX has published William 
von Hagen''s book on Xen.

I have written a review of the book which I hope you will find helpful 
in your decision making process on whether to purchase or not.

You can find it at:

	http://www.thompsonreviews.com/content/view/17/3/

Feel free to let me know if the review is helpful to you or if you would 
like a few more details.  (Please don''t ask me to type the book into an
e-mail for you...)

LT

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On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:01:29 -0500
xenlist@localmail.com wrote:
> I have written a review of the book which I hope you will find helpful 
> in your decision making process on whether to purchase or not.
Too late, I just bought it :-).

My take on it: After spending months painstakingly ferreting out
things I needed to know from various web pages, winnowing through
the misinformation, etc, this book didn''t help me discover anything
new.

But I sure wish I had it all those months ago when I started, because
it actually has all that stuff in one place.

Unfortunately, I''ve now moved on to even more obscure corners of
Xen (like trying to do ridiculous things to networking), and
I am once again lost and the book doesn''t help. No doubt about the
time I figure it out, there will be a new book out that could
have saved me the trouble :-).

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> > I have written a review of the book which I hope you will find
> helpful
> > in your decision making process on whether to purchase or not.
>
> Too late, I just bought it :-).
>
> My take on it: After spending months painstakingly ferreting out
> things I needed to know from various web pages, winnowing through
> the misinformation, etc, this book didn''t help me discover
anything
> new.
>
> But I sure wish I had it all those months ago when I started, because
> it actually has all that stuff in one place.
>
> Unfortunately, I''ve now moved on to even more obscure corners of
> Xen (like trying to do ridiculous things to networking), and
> I am once again lost and the book doesn''t help. No doubt about the
> time I figure it out, there will be a new book out that could
> have saved me the trouble :-).
>
Either of you know about Syngress'' Virtualization with Xen (May 2007)?
I am curious how it compares, if its better I will buy it. Syngress''
book is terrible IMHO.
jlc

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What version of Xen does the book cover ? I presume 3.1 ?

Regards,

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