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, 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.
Remus and Kemari , still going strong
Remus and Kemari, the 2 VM mirroring solutions for Xen both made some announcements recently.
15Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedCopyCats in Virtualization
Step back in time with me a couple of years, Xen was starting it’s upmars and with Xen paravirtualization became popular , then came the other Virtualization vendors and the discussion about which technology was best discussed started.
Now we all know that VMWare and Xensource were discussing how to include hooks for Paravirtualization into the Linux kernel and eventually that also happened,however there wasn’t really any adoption , a couple of weeks ago VMWare announced it was going to drop support for paravirtualization. Aparrently VMWare’s Paravirtualization story wasn’t really a success.
13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | ContinuedProject XVP
On blog.xen.org we read about XVP , one of the most common questions for XenServer is a webinterface to manage the VM’s from a browser. XVP , developed by Colin Dean at the Durham University in the UK has one based on 4 components.
13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedEnomaly ECP 3.0.3 Service Provider Edition Released
Reuven Cohen, Founder and Chief Technologist for Toronto based Enomaly Inc posts on his blog Elastic Vapor that Enomaly is announcing the general availability of The Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP) Service Provider Edition 3.0.3.
13Nov2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedMemory OverCommit and Shared Memory pages
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Have you ever been in that meeting with the proprietary sales guy on one side and a bunch of Virtualization newbies on the other side ?
Usually the simplified discussion goes like this,
Customer : “We’re looking into virtualizing some of our servers , we already have some windows, and some Linux, Linux does Virtualization right [...]
The future of Linux and Virtualization
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While catching up on my reading backlog I ran into an
article over at Ostatic titled, “Linux and Virtualization will March Forward Together” ,
Bob Sutor from IBM is quoted in that article stating
“I think Linux is such a natural for virtualization, both as a host and as a guest, and this will drive [...]
Cloud Computing is the Future!
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8Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedThe End of Paravirtualization?
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Alok Kataria , a Systems Programmer & Linux Kernel hacker at VMWare posted to the
Linux Kernel Mailing List last month about his experiences benchmarking VMware’s paravirtualization technique (VMI) and hardware MMU technologies (HWMMU) on VMware’s hypervisor.
Their test platform was a Dual Quad Core AMD Opteron 2384 2.7GHz (Shanghai C2), RVI capable running a [...]
KVM News In Short
Over the past couple of weeks different new releases of KVM and related software saw the light . Virt-manager 0.8.0 was officially announced the most interesting new feature probably being the the Clone VM wizard but also a bunch of system tray icons for smooth desktop integration and CPU pinning support are very interesting.
21Aug2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedOracle Dumps Virtual Iron
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When
early march this year we talked about Oracle eying Virtual Iron we noted that Oracle needed to fill the VM Management gap that RedHat was leaving on Xen level by moving to KVM.
Turns out that that indeed was their main target, late last month Oracle announced their key virtualization strategy to [...]
Have a look at Convirture
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The guys over at
Convirture have a mission .. “Enterprise-grade management for OSS hypervisor & cloud platforms.”. They want to close the gap between the Command Line based Linux Admins and the CIO’s that want to have nice administration interface
Late june they released a Convirt 1.1 version which apart from some bug fixes and some [...]
RHEL 5.4 will feature KVM
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July 1st marked the availability of the first Beta version of what will eventually become Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL) , for Virtualization.com readers the most important part of this upcoming release is with no doubt the full shift from Xen to KVM. When late last year
RedHat picked up Qumranet it [...]
You can use DRBD to this with kvm/xen 
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this is very interesting,The software enables the consolidation by keeping the infrastructure update completely transparent to the ESX hypervisor, . 
yeah,Sourcefire is now shipping its first VMware-based virtual appliances. 
im 3 year exp in DWDM monitoring