The OpenVZ project have released virtual appliance software for Ubuntu giving users the ability to run the popular Ubuntu 7.10 distribution in a Linux container. Users simply download a template and then can use OpenVZ software to create a virtual server running Ubuntu 7.10 in about one minute !
OpenVZ Virtualisation for Ubuntu
May 6th, 2009
VirtualBox 2.2.2 released 2009-04-27
April 29th, 2009VirtualBox 2.2.2 this is a maintenance release.
IBM EC2 hourly pricing
April 23rd, 2009You can now pay hourly for IBM DB2 & WebSphere sMash licences on Amazon EC2 !
- Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Express - starting at $0.38/hour
- Amazon EC2 running IBM DB2 Workgroup - starting at $1.31/hour
- Amazon EC2 running IBM WebSphere sMash - starting at $0.50/hour
AsteriskNow & TrixBox under VMware fusion
April 21st, 2009Howto install AsteriskNow & TrixBox as MAC OS/X VMware fusion virtual machines / software appliances
First DO NOT choose RedHat at your guest OS or your VOIP PBX VM wont recognise the VMware SCSI disk ! You must choose RHEL5 as your guest OS so that scsi0.virtualDev = “lsilogic” is added to your guest VMX file. There’s the danger of Wizards for you !
Both AsteriskNow and Trixbox are based on CentOS 5 with linux kernel 2.6.18.
AsteriskNow has a GUI installer so you can replace the default LVM partitions with standard linux partitions if you wish.
TrixBox has a TEXT installer.
QuteCom is the new name for WengoPhone
April 20th, 2009QuteCom is the new name for the open source softphone previously known as WengoPhone
Ubuntu on Amazon EC2
April 12th, 2009Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon - Beta programme now open
Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon gives you the power of Ubuntu combined with the flexibility of Amazon’s cloud computing service. Ubuntu’s modularity, virtualization capabilities, range of applications and optimised performance make it the perfect solution if you’re deploying applications on Amazon’s Elastic Computing (EC2) cloud.
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/features/ec2
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EC2StartersGuide
Amazon SQS in Europe
April 9th, 2009Announcing Amazon SQS WSDL Version 2009-02-01 and Amazon SQS in Europe
Amazon SQS now includes shared queue access which, among other things, will give you the ability to grant access to your queue to anonymous users and enable you to integrate non-AWS applications with AWS applications.
VMware Fusion 2.0.3 now available for MAC OS X
April 7th, 2009VMware Fusion 2.0.3 now available for MAC OS X
rPath finally have a competitor
April 6th, 2009Novell SuseStudio alpha now lets you build disk images, Live CD/DVDs and Vmware VMs and you can even test run them inside your browser !
suse studio
VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4
April 2nd, 2009VMware ESX Server 3.5 Update 4 has a new VMXNET version that improves virtual machine networking performance and requires VMware tools upgrade.