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Cloud computing services with Red Hat provides you hosted, on-demand, managed, compute resources available as a web service.

Red Hat has partnered with Amazon to provide publicly accessible servers, bandwidth, storage, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on a monthly/hourly basis.

This dynamic set of compute resources allows you to scale your compute resources up and down as your needs change, without upfront investment in hardware or software.

Lxlabs HyperVM is a multi-platform, multi-tiered, multi-server, multi-virtualization web based application that will allow you to create and manage different Virtual Machines each based on different technologies across machines and platforms.

The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !

Xen Source Cool Configurations is a blog / wiki of some of the coolest Xen configurations around !

Jailtime.org

provide a variety of downloads and howto’s to facilitate use of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor.

Jailtime.org have Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.

Have you ever wondered which VM is which when looking at top

top - 11:58:00 up 56 days,  1:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.57, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   2 running,  86 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.8%us, 12.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517840k used,    36128k free,     4500k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282832k cachedPID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:56.98 vmware-vmx
12310 user  5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.9 33.7 277:42.39 vmware-vmx
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  2.1 12.0   3214:21 vmware-vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.0  0.3  95:12.36 vmware-serverd

well just make your xterm screen wider run “top” and press “c”

top - 11:58:10 up 56 days,  1:09,  1 user,  load average: 0.56, 0.59, 0.96
Tasks:  88 total,   1 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2%us, 12.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1553968k total,  1517964k used,    36004k free,     4516k buffers
Swap:  2040244k total,   107652k used,  1932592k free,  1282888k cached

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12387 user       5 -10  793m 533m 479m S  1.4 35.1  83:57.12 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/w2k8/w2k8.vmx -@ ""
12310 user       5 -10  743m 510m 497m S  8.3 33.7 277:43.21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/rhyth/rhyth.vmx -@ ""
3368 user       5 -10  447m 182m 168m S  3.2 12.0   3214:21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/redmine-0.5/JumpBox.vmx
2537 root      15   0 19040 4728 1572 S  0.3  0.3  95:12.39 /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd -s -d

VMware Server Version: 1.0.5 | 3/14/08 | Build: 80187 | is now available !

Release Notes

VirtualBox product has been quickly established as one of the leading developer desktop virtualization platforms.

Now, as part of the Sun xVM portfolio, VirtualBox will have the support of Sun’s global development community, field resources and partners to make VirtualBox even more compelling to developers and end users, driving greater adoption across a broad set of communities.

VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side, switching between them with just a click of the mouse.

SitePoint have written a really good article comparing Amazon EC2 vs Google App Engine with some great references

• google-reveals-app-engine
• http://code.google.com/appengine/
• app-engine-cant-handle-demand-for-google-app-engine
• app-engine-page-already-owned-by-hackers
• appjet
• http://www.amazon.com/gp
  
• scalr
• heroku

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