The updated version of rBuilder, rPath’s flagship product, provides a new Appliance Model which allows software companies to centrally define configurations for the development, testing and release stages of their appliance. This makes it easier for multiple groups to coordinate on the development and launch of a new appliance. It also ensures that consistent processes are used across multiple appliance releases.
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rPath Announces Upgrades to rBuilder and rPath Appliance Platform
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008SUN 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.
Virtualisation HowTo’s @ howtoforge
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008The howtoforge has a great set of virtualisation howto’s for Xen, KVM and more !
XEN vm hwclock issues
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !
- http://howtoforge.com/debian_sarge_xen_3.0.3_p7
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
- http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/CoolConfigurations
- http://jailtime.org/download:centos:v5.1?s=hwclock
You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help
Google App Engine JumpBox
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008The Google App Engine JumpBox gives you a drop in place system for doing Google App Engine development that’s contained in an isolated environment within a virtual machine.
It runs exactly the same on GNU/Linux, Mac and other OS’s and gives you a development environment that lets you take advantage of great virtualization features like snapshots. It will run from a single download on Parallels Desktop, VMWare, Virtual Iron, Xen Open Source in fully virtualized mode and others.
Jump Box Licence Bundle
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Jump Box Open is a subscription that grants you one license for every JumpBox in the Open Source Collection for a period of one year. From Content Management Systems (CMS) to Wikis, CRM to Ticket Tracking, there are already JumpBoxes available for many of the most popular Open Source applications.
There are 20 JumpBoxes currently available, with 50 additional expected by the end of 2008.
MS Hyper-V lets you run GNU/Linux as a guest
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server MS virtualization technology, allows you to make the best use of your server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine. With Hyper-V you can also efficiently run multiple different operating systems—Windows, Linux, and others—in parallel, on a single server, and fully leverage the power of x64 computing.
JumpBox upgrades Ubuntu runtime and adds S3 backups
Saturday, March 8th, 2008http://www.jumpbox.com/node/1092
Runtime 1.0 JumpBoxes are based on Ubuntu 6.06 while Runtime 1.1 is based on Ubuntu 7.10.
The second new option is the ability to save backups into Amazon S3. This is a feature that we’re really excited about, Amazon S3 is a great service where you pay by the GB to store data on Amazon’s systems
Howto use yum excludes to prevent kernel updates breaking VMware kernel modules
Friday, February 15th, 2008If you are using CentOS 5 , Oracle Enterprise 5 or Red Hat Enterprise 5 as a VMware host or guest you can edit /etc/yum.conf and add a line
exclude=kernel*
this should prevent yum updating your kernel and thus breaking vmware services modules in vmware server and vmware services modules in vmware guest tools
also see
VMware VMX translations for Player, Server and ESX
Friday, January 25th, 2008Sanbarrow has done a great job of documenting the VMX file.
My favorite tips are