Review of The Book of Xen Posted
Amazon.com just posted my five star review of The Book of Xen by Chris Takemura and Luke S. Crawford. From the review : The Book of Xen (TBOX) is a great book for Linux system administrators who want to deploy Xen. The authors ground their recommendations in over four years of experience running Xen to support Internet-facing virtual private servers. I found their writing style to be very engaging; it reminded me of reading any

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