Three years ago, I got an email from a man named Tyler Ortman. Now, sometimes you get an email that changes everything. This was one such email. "Would you be interested in writing a book about Xen?"

Now, like so many of the things we've done, Chris and I had no idea how much work was involved. there really is a lot more to writing a book than to scrawling out a blog post or two, or a mailing list rant, even one with similar word counts.

But, it's done now, and we would like to celebrate a little before we begin bracing ourselves for the 2nd edition.