Archive for the ‘xen’ Category
rPath Xen software appliance build options
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008rPath Xen software appliance virtual machine build options
Non Xen
- ~!domU, ~!xen
Xen domU
- domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~!kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)
Xen domU+pae
- domU, ~!group-dist.bothpae, ~kernel.pae, ~kernel.smp, xen is: x86(mmx)
OpenVZ vs Xen
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !
Ubuntu 8.04 VPS are already available !
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008At least VPSLink are already advertising OpenVZ & Xen Ubuntu 8.04 VPS VMs from $8/m !
VPSLink CentOS VPS plans
VPSLink Ubuntu VPS plans
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.
Oracle Xen VM purchasing & pricing
Friday, March 14th, 2008You can purchase Oracle VM from the Oracle Shop
Oracle VM Premier Limited (one system max two cpus) @ $499
Oracle VM Premier (one system any num cpus) @ $999
openSUSE now includes VirtualBox & Xen virtualisation
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008according to http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine the latest version (10.3) of openSUSE now includes VirtualBox & Xen virtualisation platforms
Oracle Xen VM Server pre-built Xen VM guests now available
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Oracle have just released pre-built para-virtualised Xen domu guests of Oracle Unbreakable GNU/Linux and Oracle 11g DB available for download: