Archive for the ‘xen’ Category

Xen v KVM v VMware

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

According to http://billyonopensource.blogspot.com/2009/02/red-hat-goes-streaking-dumps-xen.html

virtualisation is now going to a three horse race:

  • Xen (Citrix)
  • KVM (Red Hat)
  • VI (VMware)

and all are coming from different positions of strength – and weakness !

Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS VM Templates

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS

With Oracle Enterprise Linux JeOS (Just Enough OS) — a secure, minimized OS that is freely re-distributable and backed by enterprise-class support — developers and ISVs can now easily build Oracle VM Templates.

Xen Summit presentations

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Xen Summit North America 2009 Presentations and abstracts from 24-25 February 2009.

Virtual Private Datacenters !

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

According to LinuxMag VPS are old hat and we’re talking about virtual private datacenters now.

See :

Red Hat and M$ sign VM agreement

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Red Hat and Microsoft have signed reciprocal agreements to enable increased interoperability for the companies’ virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other’s virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI on Amazon EC2

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

OpenSolaris 2008.11 Base AMI on Amazon EC2

The AMI ID is:

OpenSolaris 2008.11   32-bit AMI ami-7db75014

To read about what’s new in OpenSolaris 2008.11 visit the OpenSolaris Web site and read the latest documentation for OpenSolaris AMIs.

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/