If you have recently upgraded to the latest versions of ed/x/ubuntu (10.x) and the latest version of vmware player (3.1.1) you may experience the “good old” vmware tools & vmware toolbox “missing make”, “missing gcc” or “missing kernel headers” errors !
These can normally be fixed by running
# aptitude install bin-utils
# aptitude install linux-headers-generic
before re-running
# vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl
and
# vmware-config-tools.pl
BitNami now provide both VMs based on both OpenSuse and Ubuntu so you now choose between BitNami and JumpBox for your pre-built Ubuntu software appliances and VMs !
BitNami pre-built VM software appliances
JumBox pre-built VM software appliances
According to The Register NASA have started to build a private Nebula Cloud based on Ubuntu 10 and Eucalyptus Enterprise 2 which will likely underpin websites across the federal government.
Eucalyptus Enterprise works with the Xen and KVM hypervisors and the latest version has now been ported to VMware hypervisors as well, allowing for installation atop VMware’s vSphere, ESXi, and ESX virtualization technologies. The Eucalyptus Enterprise edition also includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-based applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2.
Canonical Ubuntu have created Ubuntu Advantage and Ubuntu Assurance Programmes
Ubuntu Assurance covers your business for claims of intellectual property (IP) infringements arising from your use of Ubuntu. This offer is designed to safeguard your business and make deploying Ubuntu even easier.
There are separate programmes for server and desktop
Just discovered that DataCentreKnowledge has a Cloud Computing Section featuring news stories about:
TurnKey Linux virtual appliances are built almost entirely from unmodified Ubuntu binaries, it is possible for anyone to verify the integrity of the binaries that make up a virtual appliance against the original package signatures from the official Ubuntu repositories. There are minor exceptions. When required, a virtual appliance may contain a few custom packages which are updated from our cryptographically signed package repository. Full source code for all custom components is available in our code repository. Some components are also hosted on github.
Canonical Ubuntu Project Landscape simplifies the process of managing Cloud environments by allowing you to manage them as you would physical machines. Users can now start, stop, manage and monitor Ubuntu instances on the Amazon EC2 cloud environment from within Landscape. Manage and Monitor instances of Ubuntu from within Landscape Landscape works equally well with preconfigured Ubuntu images on Amazon EC2 or manage your own custom images. Manage Virtual Cloud instances and your physical systems on the same page in Landscape
As part of its upcoming 9.10 release, Ubuntu GNU/Linux is set to integrate a number of new cloud technologies.
One of the efforts will include a cloud software appliance store to help expedite setup and deployment of private clouds.
Eucalyptus – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to Eucalyptus is compatible with Amazon’s EC2, S3, and EBS interfaces, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. Eucalyptus is implemented using commonly available Linux tools and basic Web-service technologies making it easy to install and maintain.
The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is powered by Eucalyptus, an open source implementation for the emerging standard of EC2. This solution is designed to simplify the process of building and managing an internal cloud for businesses of any size, thereby enabling companies to create their own self-service infrastructure.
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