Archive for the ‘xen’ Category

Oracle OEL JeOS AMI VMs for Amazon EC2

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Oracle OEL JeOS AMI VMs for Amazon EC2

An Amazon EC2 JumpBox for everyone for an hour !

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

An Amazon EC2 JumpBox for everyone for an hour !

http://osde-info.vox.com/library/post/now-everyone-can-try-an-amazon-aws-ec2-jumpbox-for-an-hour.html

Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2 ISOs are now available for download from:

http://www.oracle.com/virtualization

and you can get some Oracle Xen VM templates from

Citrix XenServer 5

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Citrix XenServer 5 has arrived http://www.xenserver5.com/

Red Hat defends replacing Xen with KVM

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Red Hat defends replacing Xen with KVM

rPath Xen software appliance build options

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

rPath 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, 2008

VPSLink 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, 2008

At least VPSLink are already advertising OpenVZ & Xen Ubuntu 8.04 VPS VMs from $8/m !

VPSLinkĀ  CentOS VPS plans

VPSLinkĀ  Ubuntu VPS plans

Virtualisation HowTo’s @ howtoforge

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

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

XEN vm hwclock issues

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

It seems there are some issues with xen hwclock and centos and ubuntu xen vms !

You may find that installing
# yum install system-config-date
and using timeconfig instead might help