Hello, Is there any good book regarding Xen. I have found some written in 2007, which makes them quite ancient. Best regards, mjb
For Xen users and sys admins, I found "Running Xen" to be a good book. Very informative, yet easy to read/understand. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz <gausus@gausus.net>wrote:> Hello, > > Is there any good book regarding Xen. I have found some written in 2007, > which makes them quite ancient. > > Best regards, > mjb > > _______________________________________________ > 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
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:35:24AM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:> Is there any good book regarding Xen. I have found some written in 2007, > which makes them quite ancient.There''s nothing really current. "The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor" is a reasonable exposition of some hypervisor internals, but not very useful for an administrator. "Running Xen" is a pretty good sysadmin book, but very focused on Linux and tools like ''xm''. There''s really nothing good for xVM apart from the opensolaris.org docs :) regards john
as part of the usecase project (http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/use_case_project while we wait for the web-page transitions) we are looking at, and documenting use cases, and will be writing best practices docs, in support of the doc community. we would love participation, or at least SME''s to help. I have always found the best way to truly understand something is to write about it... hth, rich John Levon wrote:> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:35:24AM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > >> Is there any good book regarding Xen. I have found some written in 2007, >> which makes them quite ancient. > > There''s nothing really current. "The Definitive Guide to the Xen > Hypervisor" is a reasonable exposition of some hypervisor internals, but > not very useful for an administrator. "Running Xen" is a pretty good > sysadmin book, but very focused on Linux and tools like ''xm''. There''s > really nothing good for xVM apart from the opensolaris.org docs :) > > regards > john > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
John Levon <john.levon@sun.com> writes:> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:35:24AM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > > > Is there any good book regarding Xen. I have found some written in 2007, > > which makes them quite ancient. > > There''s nothing really current. "The Definitive Guide to the Xen > Hypervisor" is a reasonable exposition of some hypervisor internals, but > not very useful for an administrator. "Running Xen" is a pretty good > sysadmin book, but very focused on Linux and tools like ''xm''. There''s > really nothing good for xVM apart from the opensolaris.org docs :)If it''s okay to toot my own horn, my book just came out. It''s solidly at the SysAdmin level, not the kernel-programmer level, but it does have some serious practical experience behind it, and covers 3.0.3 through 3.3/3.4 - I would say that is fairly up to date for printed book standards. see http://nostarch.com/xen.htm if you are interested. It''s only got one OpenSolaris chapter, which is shared with NetBSD, but we were lucky enough to get Rami Rosen as the technical editor, and I think he did an excellent job polishing what little info we have about OpenSolaris. -- Luke S. Crawford http://prgmr.com/xen/ - Hosting for the technically adept http://nostarch.com/xen.htm - We don''t assume you are stupid.