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.
Xen Summit Boston , partial schedule announced
Stephen Spector just announced the current agenda for the upcoming Boston Xen Summit.
Ian Pratt and Keir Fraser will kick off the event with an overview of the Xen roadmap.
After that there will be talks about XenLoop, A Transparent Inter-VM Network Loopback Channel,
about trusted VMs Tamura Yoshiaki from NTT will […]
KVM vs Xen , who will win the fight ?
Ian Pratt and Benny Schnaider are using strong words against eachother.
As KVM is gaining more and more popularity by being adopted in different Linux distributions ,such as Ubuntu like we reported earlier, the battle betweeen these different virtualization technologies will continue to be interesting.
Yes KVM is being adopted by different software or distribution […]
Xen API Project Announced
Stephen Spector, Xen.org community manager has just announced that he’s calling for the community willing to work on completing the existing Xen-API specification.
28Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM Forum 2008 Schedule Has Been Announced
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The
schedule for the upcoming KVM 2008 forum in Nappa, CA is up.
Qumranet, as the main KVM sponsor, is inviting all KVM developers to their
second KVM summit on June 10 to 13th at the Marriot Napa Valley, California.
Many of the world’s top kernel developers will gather to discuss the state of […]
Xen 3.2.1 Released
Keir Fraser has announced the availability of Xen 3.2.1 and 3.1.4, both bugfix releases in the Xen 3.1 and 3.2 series. The 3.2.1 release contains architectural improvements and new user-visible features.
27Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedOttawa Linux Symposium Issues CFP For Mini Summit on Virtualization
The Ottawa Linux Symposium today announced its Mini Summits that will be taking place on the Tuesday before the actual Symposium. One of these summits is the “Virtualization Technology & Management” Mini Summit which has just issued a Call for Presentations.
22Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedYahoo Needs Your Virtualization Advice
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Over at
his own blog, Jeremy Zawodny of
Yahoo fame needs your advice on what virtualization software to use.
He has both a Windows machine and a Linux desktop he wants to use to run other virtual machines on.
What would your advice be?
Xen, VirtualBox , Qemu , VMWare? Or something completely different?
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17Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedRemus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
Remus allows systems to transparently move to another physical machine in the event of a failure on the primary machine
16Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedQlusters Releases openQRM 3.5
Qlusters has released openQRM 3.5 to SourceForge.net. The 3.5 open source release succeeds release 3.1.4 and includes a set of new features based on input from various data centers and test/dev labs. Release 3.5 is available for download now.
9Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Present And Future of Xen
Over the past few months, a number of people have been vouching the idea that Xen’s development and adoption is slowing down because of the Citrix’ acquisition. Is it? A look at the present state and future of Xen.
7Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Current State of Open Source Virtualization
We’ve started by looking back at a decade of Open Source virtualization, and in this second part of the series we’ll tackle today’s landscape (last updated in March 2008).
26Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedLive Virtual Machine Migration Vulnerability
Anthony Liguori has a good summary of the
Blackhat paper by Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke and Farnam Jahanian of the University of Michigan about Xensploit .
The idea of Xensploit is to use a Man in the Middle attack between 2 hosts performing a Live migration. The fundamental […]
24Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued
