On 30 September 2011 00:13, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:06:18AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > Part of what we brainstormed at Xen Hackathon was what we could do make
> Xen easier.
> >
> > And the one thing that seemed to surface up was making the docs better -
> either
> > be the Wiki or the three .pdfs that get created/shipped with Xen.
> >
> > One thought was to come up with a Documention Day - where volunteers
> would try to
> > fix up some portion of the documentation that they feel they have
> > a good grasp of knowledge off and are willing to change (and also look
> > to be incorrect)
> >
> > What do you guys think of Oct 12th or Oct 26 as a day for this?
> >
> > And then the next question - what page/pdf section interests you?
> >
> > http://bits.xensource.com/Xen/docs/user.pdf
> > http://www.rites.uic.edu/~solworth/xenInterfaceManual.pdf [the one on
> Xen.org is an older version]
> >
> > Or Wiki pages:
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/
> >
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems
> >
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Consulting
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Consultants
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/VpsHostingWithXen
> >
> > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenPCIpassthrough
> > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/VTdHowTo
> >
>
> Some more related pages:
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.0
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenKernelFeatures
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenBestPractices
> http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenHypervisorBootOptions
>
> Also there's something completely new that we should document:
> How to install Xen VMs! which means document all the relevant methods:
> boot the native distro installer as PV guest, as HVM guest, xen-tools,
> virt-install,
> debootstrap, rpmstart, etc..
>
> That's something people ask about very often..
>

Agreed.

After working through a bunch of the pages I think we are going to have to
have a realtime collab session to decide on some way of reorganising
everything into categories.



> -- Pasi
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