Introduction / Xen Stuff

[Michael DeHaan]

Hi,

My name is Michael DeHaan, and I work in Red Hat's emerging technologies 
group in Raleigh, NC.    I joined this list because (A) I really want to 
get more involved in the Fedora project beyond maintaining some extras 
packages, (B) I'm hoping that I can contribute some on the Xen and 
systems-management side of things, since I've heard infrastructure is 
going to start to do more with virtual machines.   I also have a good 
deal of experience with other companies build systems (but not Red Hat's 
or Fedora's) and possibly I might be able to contribute some there also, 
or at least learn more about Fedora's setup.  Mainly I'm interested in 
systems management and virtualization stuff though.

Xen-wise, two things.   I wrote and maintain a provisioning application 
called cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com), which potentially could 
be useful for provisioning Xen boxes in the infrastructure environment.  
Maybe.  If not, maybe it can be extended, and feedback is awesome.  If 
it's not useful, that's ok.

The other thing is that I'm looking at ways to deploy Xen in easy ways 
for Fedora users, basically an open way of managing a /lot/ of Xen 
machines with integrated configuration management, central interfaces, 
and not a lot of setup or technical knowledge needed.    That's all 
pretty new, though if some of that would be useful for infrastructure as 
it evolves, that would be pretty neat.   Either way, I figure I can 
learn from ways that Fedora is using Xen just the same.

Anyhow, hi.

--Michael