CloudMin can help you manage KVM, OpenVZ and Xen clouds.
VirtualMin have also made available some VirtualMin & EC2 AMIs you can try out for yourself.
http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/aws/virtualmin_gpl_ami/
Archive for the ‘xen’ Category
CloudMin & VirtualMin EC2 AMIs
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010NASA Nebula Ubuntu cloud
Saturday, June 19th, 2010According to The Register NASA have started to build a private Nebula Cloud based on Ubuntu 10 and Eucalyptus Enterprise 2 which will likely underpin websites across the federal government.
Eucalyptus Enterprise works with the Xen and KVM hypervisors and the latest version has now been ported to VMware hypervisors as well, allowing for installation atop VMware’s vSphere, ESXi, and ESX virtualization technologies. The Eucalyptus Enterprise edition also includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-based applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
Red Hat are replacing Xen with KVM in RHEL 6
Friday, June 18th, 2010According to The Register Red Hat are replacing Xen with KVM in RHEL 6 !
One of the main goals for RHEL 6 was to make managing virtual servers as easy as managing physical machines, which means the bulk of the new software features are found in KVM. It also means that Xen is gone, though that’s hardly surprising since Red Hat purchased Qumranet – creators of KVM – back in 2008.
Xen VPS hosting with guaranteed resources
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010Crucial Paradigm are advertising fast, reliable VPS hosting using Xen
You have full control over your virtual dedicated server just as though it was a dedicated server. This means you will not have issues installing your own modules or even running IP tables. Performance on Xen virtual servers is very high, and you will not have to worry about your applications crashing due to using Virtuozzo or OpenVZ. Also, by utilizing Xen, we are able to guarantee all resources, and its not possible to oversell, so your virtual dedicated servers will run fast, and just like a dedicated server, at a fraction of the cost!
Red Hat RHEL VIrtualisation Webinars
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Red Hat RHEL VIrtualisation Webinars
Xen 4
Friday, April 23rd, 2010There is a quick intro and review of Xen 4 @ http://virtually-a-machine.blogspot.com/
AMD-V and Intel VT virtualisation extensions
Friday, September 25th, 2009http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualization_Guide
AMD-V or Intel VT virtualisation extensions are required for full KVM or Xen virtualisation.
Use $ cat /proc/cpuinfo to see what your CPU supports. You need either ’svm’ or ‘vmx’ but note that some older Intel XEONs do not have this !
Red Hat RHEL 5 KVM & Xen unconfusion !
Friday, September 25th, 2009now includes full support for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor on x86_64 based architectures. KVM is integrated into the Linux kernel, providing a virtualization platform that takes advantage of the stability, features, and hardware support inherent in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Note
Xen is the default hypervisor that is shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As such all configuration defaults are tailored for use with the Xen hypervisor. For details on configuring a system for KVM, please refer to the Virtualization Guide.
Important
Xen based virtualization is fully supported. However, Xen-based virtualization requires a different version of the kernel to function. The KVM hypervisor can only be used with the regular (non-Xen) kernel.
Warning
While Xen and KVM may be installed on the same system, the default networking configuration for these are different. Users are strongly recommended to only install one hypervisor on a system.
XenServer client problems
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009XenServer only provide a client as a .RPM or even worse a .MSI ! So if you’e running ed/x/ubuntu you’ll need to install and run alien to convert the .RPM to .DEB and then run
# dpkg -i xe-cli_5.0.0-13193_i386.deb.
When you try and run # xe you may then get the error
Please install the stunnel package or define the XE_STUNNEL environment variable to point to the binary.
Time to install a CentOS VM to run XE i guess !
Convirture ConVirt KVM & Xen management dashboard
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009ConVirt provides enterprise-class management of open source virtualization platforms, making open source virtualization an extremely viable and cost-effective choice for enterprises.
ConVirt lets you manage the complete lifecycle of Xen and KVM virtualization platforms from a central, GUI dashboard.
With sophisticated template-based provisioning, centralized monitoring, configuration management and administration, IT administrators can now automate the entire virtual machine lifecycle on open source platforms.