Oracle GNU/Linux 5.2 and Oracle Xen VM Server 2.1.2

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

Jailtime.org: Virtual filesystems for Xen

Jailtime.org

provide a variety of downloads and howto’s to facilitate use of the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor.

Jailtime.org have Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.

Google App Engine JumpBox

The 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.