Introduction / Xen Stuff

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