<div dir="ltr"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:30px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2em"><a href="https://www.mug.org/2025/01/mug-meeting-tuesday-feb-11-2025-virtualization-with-xcp-ng-tom-lawrence/" rel="bookmark" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">MUG Meeting – Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025</a></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:30px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2em"><a href="https://www.mug.org/2025/01/mug-meeting-tuesday-feb-11-2025-virtualization-with-xcp-ng-tom-lawrence/" rel="bookmark" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">Virtualization with XCP-ng</a></h2><h2 class="entry-title" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:30px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:300;line-height:1.2em"><a href="https://www.mug.org/2025/01/mug-meeting-tuesday-feb-11-2025-virtualization-with-xcp-ng-tom-lawrence/" rel="bookmark" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">Tom Lawrence</a></h2><div><br></div><div class="entry-meta" style="border:0px;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:14.45px;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(89,89,89)"><a href="https://zoom.us/j/92135910114?pwd=MDJhOWxIT0swOGRLRHZwNUYvL3c1Zz09" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color:transparent;font-size:small;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(30,115,190)">Join the ZOOM meeting</a></div><div class="entry-content" style="border:0px;margin:2em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">This month, Tom Lawrence will be giving a presentation on XCP-ng, the Open Source virtualization platform.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">XCP-ng is a Linux distribution of the Xen Project, with pre-configured Xen Hypervisor and the Xen API project (XAPI) working out-of-the-box. The project was born in 2018, following the fork of Citrix XenServer (which became “Citrix Hypervisor” and now “XenServer” again).</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">Tom has given several talks for MUG in the past.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">From his bio on his LinkedIn profile:</p><blockquote style="border-width:0px 0px 0px 5px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:initial;border-left-style:solid;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-left-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.05);margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:20px;font-size:1.2em;font-style:italic"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">I create tutorials focused on network engineering, security, and IT, drawing from my real-world experience implementing solutions. My goal is to empower people through educational tutorials to configure things securely and effectively.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">Technology pushes the boundaries of our vision as we reach toward the future. I love thinking about and discussing ways we can use technology to move us towards more than just a human story.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px">I’m a Detroit-born technology professional who started my journey with an Atari 2600, a Tandy TRS-80, and a desire to learn how things work. I launched Lawrence Systems in 2003, growing it into a globally-recognized IT consulting and content creation band.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">I’m passionate about network engineering, security and Homelab projects, and share what I’ve learned via my YouTube channel and being a part of the IT community.</p></blockquote><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"></p><hr style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border:0px;height:1px;margin-bottom:40px;margin-top:40px"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px"></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">We’re also going to have a quick talk about <span style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700">Shell history and the fc command</span>.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></p></div></div>