Archive for Kris Buytaert
Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits, and starting up some new projects still in stealth mode. Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.
RedHat Picks Up Qumranet
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According to
Globes,
RedHat has acquired
Qumranet (confirmed via
press release)
“Redhat announced its acquisition of Israeli virtualization start-up Qumranet Inc. for about $100 million, ending a long period of rumors. This is Red Hat’s first acquisition in Israel, and it will turn the Linux software company into a market leader in virtualization. Qumranet [...]
VirtualBox 2.0 Hits The Wire
Sun just announced the availability of Sun xVM Virtual Box 2.0. The biggest change in xVM VirtualBox 2.0 is the new support for 64-bit versions of operating systems like Windows Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in addition to all other major host operating systems.
4Sep2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued0wning Xen … In More Detail
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Over at her
own
blog, Joanna Rutkowska from Invisible Things has some updates on their findings about Xen security as
we earlier reported.
Joanna argues that most of the attacks presented indeed require that the attacker first gains access to the Dom0 before he can launch the attacks but that doesn’t take away the [...]
Workspace Service Morphs Into Nimbus 2.0
The Workspace Service project part of Globus.org has just announced it’s rebranding and releasing the 2.0 version of what will now be known as Nimbus.
19Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedIBM launches the open-ovf project
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Scott Moser from IBM’s Systems Technology Group has released the first version of the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-neutral method for packaging virtual machine images.
The goal [...]
Should VMWare Watch Out For VirtualBox?
IT Wire has a good introductory article about VirtualBox. Sadly, their introduction is a bit wrong in the details.
14Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued0wning Xen?
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InvisibleThings.org posted some more details on their Xen Owning Trilogy session at last weeks Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
Joanna Rutkowska and her crew gave a series of 3 talks discussing different potential security issues with Xen. With the
VirtSec awareness growing this obviously is an important topic .
When quickly skimming trough the presentations [...]
VMWare Joins the Linux Foundation
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The Linux Foundation announced that VMware has become a Silver member of the Foundation,
According to their site , The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the LF sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source [...]
Oracle releases VM virtualization templates
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At LinuxWorldExpo this week in San Francisco, Oracle Announced that it It is releasing a series of preconfigured templates for deploying software on its server virtualization technology.
The templates, which are already available
at Oracle.com include configurations for Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Siebel CRM 8.0 and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
“All four of these [...]
Qumranet Announces Craig Bauman as Vice President of Sales and Channel Chief
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Qumranet, with its hosted desktop virtualization product,
Solid ICE,
announced that
Craig Bauman has joined the company as the vice president of sales and channels. Bauman will be responsible for launching the Qumranet Partner Program and leading the sales organization through its recent grow th stage.
Buaman joins Qumranet from TriActive. Prior to joining [...]
First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV’08) Announced
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Usenix has just announced it’s first
Workshop on I/O Virtualization
Scheduled to take place in San Diego on 10 and 11 december this year , the event wil
l be co-located with the Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementa
tion (OSDI’08)
The past decade the focus was mostly on processor and memory virtualization. I/O vi
rtualization [...]
Virtualization Workloads, a comparative study in Open Source environments
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At the
Ottawa Linux Symposium, Benoit de Lingeris and his team from
Revolution Linux presented their
paper “Virtualization of Linux Server, a comparative study“, mostly the work of Fernando L. Camargos in pursuit of his Masters degree in Computer Science.
They looked at
VirtualBox,
Xen,
KVM,
OpenVZ,
LinuxVServer and KQemu in an 64bit mode for [...]
