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.
Open Source Virtualization Updates
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There is a lot going on in the different Open Source Virtualization projects. From KVM, over OpenVZ , to Xen.
First of all there is the
news that Anthony Liguori has included kvm support in the main Qemu development tree. In his blogpost Avi Kivity explains that with the KVM code being merged [...]
openQRM 4.3 Hits The Street
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At the verge of the old year .. Matthias Rechenburg released the 4.3 edition of openQRM
The new 4.3 release comes with improved usability for the storage management , implemented storage security features , a new debian build system, different fixed bugs, an improved Cloud Plugin (with auto-create-virtualmachines) , new support [...]
Call for Papers 3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC-09)
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Late last year our inbox received the Call for Papers to the
3rd International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC-09)
It will be organised in conjunction with ICAC 2009 in Barcelona, Spain on June 15 2009
According to the the workshop’s Call for Papers “Virtualization has proven to be [...]
The Xen of Oracle, or was it the Oracle of Xen ?
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The Xen Blog has the news that Oracle joined the Xen Advisory Board.
“Having Oracle join the Xen Advisory Board is a significant milestone for the Xen.org community and Xen hypervisor,” said Ian Pratt, founder of the xen project and Chairman of Xen.org. “With Oracle’s industry leadership and enterprise market experience, the Xen.org community is further [...]
Enomaly Releases New Enomalism Core
Reuven announced the availability of Enomaly ECP 2.1.1 on SourceForge. Enomaly 2.1.1 is a bug fix and security release, so don’t expect to see a whole lot of new functionality.
19Dec2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtuize Partners With RedHat
Virtuize, Inc announced yesterday that it has partnered with Redhat, Inc to deliver Redhat’s Virtualization services to its customers. This expands Virtuize, Inc’s Open Source Virtualization portfolio.
6Dec2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKemari v1.0 Released
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Last month,TAMURA Yoshiaki from the Kernel Group , OSS Computing Project at the NTT Cyber Space Labs announced the
availability of Kemari on the Xen Devel mailing list.
Kemari is an open-source virtual machine synchronization mechanism for fault tolerance. It’s similar to Remus which we covered earlier.
Kemari tries to achieve a fault [...]
openQRM 4.2 Released, Includes Cloud Sauce
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Matt just let us know that he released openQRM 4.2 into the wild. This new opensource openQRM release includes VMware ESX and Citrix XenServer support, a Puppet plugin and the Cloud Add-on.
This new version comes with additional support for VMware ESX, an integration with Puppet for automated configuration management, improvements for the high-availability mechanism [...]
The End of Neverland, What Neverland ?
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Stop the presses, RedHat and AMD
just announced the end of
Neverland.
The big News seems to be that RedHat and AMD managed to do Live migration of a virtual machine between 2 different CPU Vendors.
Now given my age and my starting alzheimer, LinuxKongress 2005 in Hamburg
seems like ages ago,
As a speaker giving [...]
Can We Stop Hyping The Cloud Yet ?
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The past six to nine months we’ve seen the rapid invasion of the Cloud, Cloud Computing or a variant including Cloud. We’ve had different Barcamp style Cloudcamps, there are bloggers rebranding their virtualization blog to a cloudblog and there are new aggregators popping that gather all cloudy news.
Now let’s face it, there is [...]
RightScale Supports The Smell Of Saunas
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Today
RightScale Inc. announced they will team up with the Eucalyptus team have their platform available with Eucalyptus so they can deliver an Easy to Mange Open Source Cloud Computing platform.
They have announced that starting today, November 4, 2008 they will have the RightScale Cloud computing management platform ready for use with the Eucalyptus Puclic [...]
Roger Baskerville Leaves Citrix / XenSource
Roger Baskerville has left Citrix, where he was Regional Director Northern Europe Server Virtualization to join Vizioncore as Vice President for EMEA.
2Nov2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued
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