Archive for February, 2009

VMware Mobile Hypervisor and Google Android

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

http://www.itpro.co.uk/609997/video-two-operating-systems-on-one-phone
VMware showed a Nokia N800 PDA featuring the VMware mobile hypervisor at its VMworld Europe conference in Cannes showing Windows CE and Google’s Android running at the same time !

Citrix XenServer™ is now free

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Enterprise-class. Cloud-proven. Free-of-charge.

This week, Citrix announced a new enterprise-class version of Citrix XenServer™… at no cost. The announcement marks two firsts: the new XenServer is the first (and only) free virtualization offering to include live migration of virtual machines, and it is the first to provide free, centralized multi-server management—both widely considered killer features.

Sun xVM VirtualBox

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1.4 is now available for GNU/Linux, Apple Mac OS/X and OpenSolaris

http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/vboxdownload.html

VMware Tools X/Ubuntu dynamic resize

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

vmware server / fusion / player / tools now DYNAMICALLY resizes x/ubuntu vm windows (just like the vmware tools video driver for windoz)

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/vizz-info/2009/02/23/vmware-xubuntu-guests-and-vmware-tools-video-driver

VMware Server, VMware Tools & X/Ubuntu

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

VMware Server VMware Tools & X/Ubuntu

  • enable root
  • disable ipv6
  • check gcc is at same version that was used to compile your kernel
  • run vmware-config-tools.pl

If you are using VMware Server on a Wi-Fi notebook remember to use NAT networking instead of bridged networking for your VMs !

Ubuntu host, VMware Server & Xubuntu guest

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Ubuntu host, VMware Server & Xubuntu guest howto

ubuntu vmware server host xubuntu guest

IBM AWS Cloud & IBM SAAS

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

IBM AWS Cloud & IBM SAAS

Now IBM & DB2 are on AWS

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

IBM and AWS

IBM and Amazon Web Services have teamed up to provide you with the ability to use Amazon EC2 to build and run a range of IBM platform technologies. This relationship will enable you to bring your own IBM licenses to Amazon EC2, utilize IBM’s “Development” AMIs, or leverage the “Production” Amazon EC2 running IBM service. All of these options will enable you to get started quickly using popular IBM platform technologies in the Amazon EC2 environment.

Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The  Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)  is an open, vendor neutral, not for profit community of technology advocates, and consumers dedicated to driving the rapid adoption of global cloud computing services. CCIF shall accomplish this by working through the use open forums (physical and virtual) focused on building community consensus, exploring emerging trends, and advocating best practices / reference architectures for the purposes of standardized cloud computing.

Virtual Private Datacenters !

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

According to LinuxMag VPS are old hat and we’re talking about virtual private datacenters now.

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