http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install-chrome-os-in-windows-7-9140127/ has a great link to some pre-built vmdk virtual machines of Google Chrome OS from gdgt ! However you will need to create a gdgt account before you can download them !
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Google Chrome OS VMs from gdgt
Saturday, November 28th, 2009Whatever happend to LiquidVM ?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Oracle BEA LiquidVM is a virtualization-enabled version of BEA JRockit JVM that can run on a hypervisro without a standard OS, allowing Java applications to run directly on the virtualized hardware !
Six Apart Movable Type JumpBox VM
Monday, March 23rd, 2009Six Apart and JumpBox have been working together to vastly simplify the deployment of Movable Type Pro. This new product called “Virtual Movable Type by JumpBox” is a JumpBox virtual appliance that bundles all the components required to run Movable Type together in a single module that deploys in minutes.
http://www.movabletype.com/overview/virtual-movable-type.html
Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS VM Templates
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009With Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS (Just Enough OS) — a secure, minimized OS that is freely re-distributable and backed by enterprise-class support — developers and ISVs can now easily build Oracle VM Templates.
JumpBox Open Collection
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The JumpBox Open Collection currently has free VMs of Joomla and Movable Type and many more under subscription
VMWare Server, hyper threading CPUs and the SMP kernel
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Just noticed an interesting quirk with VMWare Server and hyper threading CPUs
I told my VM to use 1 CPU but CentOS 4 install detected the underlying hardware CPU had hyper threading so installed the SMP kernel !
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu May 8 10:52:19 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
as opposed to creating a VM where underlying hardware didn’t have hyper threading where CentOS 4 install just installed the basic kernel !
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-67.0.15.EL #1 Thu May 8 10:39:19 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
rPath approachs 10,000 software appliances
Thursday, June 12th, 2008According to www.rpath.com/rbuilder/search there are now over 9,800 rPath based projects so it shouldn’t be long before there are over 10,000 software appliance virtual machines that you could choose between and run on Parallels or Xen or most other virtualisation platforms !
Red Hat RHEL, CentOS, OEL 4 & 5 SAN filesystems go readonly !
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Apparently there is a problem in the kernel used in Red Hat RHEL 4&5, CentOS 4&5, OEL 4&5, SUSE, Ubuntu 7 and other GNU/Linux distributions that causes EXT2 EXT3 filesystems that are residing on SANs to randomly go read-only !
However if you are using kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21+ or 2.6.22+ you should be ok !
See Red Hat
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0014.html
- http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_10846.shtm
- http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_9610.shtm
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213921
See VMware
VirtualAppliances.net are now using Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 LTS and OVF
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008http://VirtualAppliances.net/downloads/
VirtualAppliances.net appliances feature an upgrade to their base distribution, using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition, which will be supported by Canonical until 2013.
All of the 32 bit Appliances are using Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough Operating System) which provides a kernel optimized for virtual appliance use.
VMware OVF (Open Virtual appliance Format) images are now available for VMware ESX and ESXi in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions.
SUN makes MySQL go virtual on Amazon EC2 cloud
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Using MySQL Enterprise for Amazon EC2, developers can cost-effectively deliver web-scale database applications in the “cloud”, fully backed by the database experts at MySQL.
Amazon EC2 and MySQL are a great fit for organizations that want to reduce the capital expenditures and operating costs required to build out and run their IT infrastructure.