2010 is going to be the year of the cloud event at least !
CloudCamp London 21 Jan 2010 is an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas.
With the rapid change occurring in the industry, we need a place where we can meet to share our experiences, challenges and solutions. At CloudCamp, you are encouraged to share your thoughts in several open discussions, as we strive for the advancement of Cloud Computing. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.
Clonezilla Live & SE P2V
With Clonezilla Live, you first create a system image from the physical server, then use the boot CD to restore the image onto the virtual machine’s hard disk. It’s simple and fast, and it should be useful for software developers, system administrators, and support engineers who want to analyze a system copy while maintaining the original one unchanged (and avoid possible hardware mismatch challenges).
Try the IBM Development and Test Cloud !
This IBM cloud environment highlights IBM’s software offerings and provides tools needed to develop and test application code. Included are tools to configure and manage the dynamic execution environment, an IDE that facilitates the direct use of the execution environment, and build and test tools that can exploit the execution environment.
I did but unfortunately it was down was down today ! When its fixed I might try one of the IBM APPs or one of the IBM development or production AMIs !
Red Hat customers can now use the rPath release automation platform to manage their systems running Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 4 and RHEL 5.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a secure and seamless bridge between a company’s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPCenables enterprises to connect their existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWScompute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend their existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include their AWS resources
If your Xubuntu 8.x/9.x (XFCE) VM keeps logging you out on startup it may be a problem with your XFCE config startup or VMware tools toolbox startup settings.
So just reboot your VM into single user mode or login as root (only if you’ve pre/re/enabled root account login) and goto the users directory that has the problem and :
# cd ~user-with-problem
# mv .config .old
# logout
Now you should be able to re-login as then problem user !
However they will have lost all their XFCE X11 X settings but you can now :
$ diff -qr .config .old
to investigate the XFCE or VMware setting that was causing the problem !
You can also check your .xsession-errors file(s) to see if you’re getting:
vmware-user: could not open /proc/fs/vmblock/dev
in which case you could try and re-run vmware-config-tools.pl and reboot to fix !
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If you’ve built a VMware VM but forgotten to turn off LVM and therefore cant use vmware virtual toolbox to shrink your disks you can still perform a virtual shrink by filling up your vm vmdks with 0’s !
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=1
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=2
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=3
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=4
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=40M count=40 of=5
etc etc
$ rm 1 2 3 4 5
This didnt affect the 11G of space used by my vm vmdk disks but it did reduce the tgz of the entire vm from 5.5G to 3.3G !
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