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April 2008
OpenNebula :: start
by camel
OpenNEbula (former GridHypervisor) is a virtual infrastructure engine that enables the dynamic deployment and re-allocation of virtual machines on a pool of physical resources. ONE (OpenNEbula) extends the benefits of virtualization platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling the server not only from the physical infrastructure but also from the physical location.
Openfiler — Openfiler Community
by camel
Openfiler is a powerful, intuitive browser-based network storage software distribution. Openfiler ScreenshotsOpenfiler delivers file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking in a single framework.
Openfiler is built on the rPath Linux metadistribution and is distributed as a stand-alone Linux distribution. The entire software stack interfaces with third-party software that is all open source.
File-based networking protocols supported by Openfiler include: NFS, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/WebDAV and FTP. Network directories supported by Openfiler include NIS, LDAP (with support for SMB/CIFS encrypted passwords), Active Directory (in native and mixed modes) and Hesiod. Authentication protocols include Kerberos 5.
Openfiler includes support for volume-based partitioning, iSCSI (target and initiator), scheduled snapshots, resource quota, and a single unified interface for share management which makes allocating shares for various network file-system protocols a breeze.
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March 2008
Enomalism – Trac
by camel
& 1 other
Enomalism Beta Program ¶
The Enomalism cloud computing platform currently in beta and is available to select Enomaly partners. Please enter tickets using the New Ticket link above. Full source code is available under Browse Source.
What is Enomalism? ¶
Enomalism is an open source web-based virtual infrastructure platform. Designed to answer the complexity of managing globally disperse virtual server environments. Enomalism helps to automate the transition to a cloud computing environment by reducing an IT organizations overall workload. The easy to use dashboard can help with issues including deployment planning, load balancing, automatic VM migration, configuration management, and capacity diagnosis.
February 2008
XenSource Knowledge Base : Creating a XenServer Storage Repository on a FAKERAID volume using dmraid
by camel
XenServer Host installation on a FAKERAID volume (as opposed to real hardware RAID volume) is not yet supported, but you can create a Storage Repository on a RAID volume after XenServer Host installation.
For this procedure you need three hard disks, two which are configured as RAID1, and the third which is not a part of the RAID array.
andLinux.org
by yakari35
& 5 others
(via)
Une Ubuntu qui tourne dans Windows, intégrée avec l'Explorer !!!
08000LINUX - L'assurance de vos logiciels libres - Contributions
by camel
Un livre blanc sur la virtualisation vient d’être publié en langue française sur le site web de l’Open Source Software Assurance. Son catalogue couvre plus de 200 logiciels et vous est proposée à partir du "guichet unique", le 08000linux.com, dont le site web vient de subir un premier lifting.
Récemment lancé dans une toute nouvelle version, le site 0800Linux.com propose désormais une page de "contribution". Le site, proposé par le Groupe Linagora, rappelle les liens étroits que la société entretient avec différentes communautés Open Source, dont il "emploie certains des contributeurs, dont OpenOffice.org, Fedora, Kubuntu."
Le premier livre blanc, daté de décembre 2007, présente un tour d’horizon des outils libres permettant la virtualisation. Il est signé Benoît DONNETTE et David HANNEQUIN. Le document, de 61 pages, peut être téléchargé sans enregistrement et sans frais au format PDF sur le site 08000Linux.com.
Virtual Machine Manager: Home
by camel
The "Virtual Machine Manager" application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains and their live performance & resource utilization statistics. A detailed view presents graphs showing performance & utilization over time. Ultimately it will allow creation of new domains, and configuration & adjustment of a domain's resource allocation & virtual hardware. Finally an embedded VNC client viewer presents a full graphical console to the guest domain.
January 2008
Un livre blanc sur la virtualisation (TOOLinux)
by camel
Intitulé "État de l’art des solutions libres de virtualisation pour une petite entreprise", l’ouvrage de Lucas Bonnet (Bearstech) arrive à point nommé dans une contexte favorable. Pour l’auteur, "cette montée en puissance n’est pas due au hasard : elle suit de très près la demande du marché."
Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
by camel
While consolidating physical to virtual machines using Xen,we want to be able to deploy and manage virtual machines in the same way we manage and deploy physical machines. For operators and support people there should be no difference between virtual and physical installations.
Integrating Virtual Machines with the rest of the infrastructure, should have a low impact on the existing infrastructure. Typically, Virtual machine vendors have their own tools to deploy and manage virtual machines. Apart from the vendor lock-in to that specific virtual machine platform , it requires the administrators to learn yet another platform that they need to understand and manage, something we want to prevent.
This paper discusses how we integrated SystemImager with Xen, hence creating a totally open source deployment framework for the popular open source Virtual Machine monitor. We will document both development of our tools and go more in depth on other infrastructure related issues when using Xen
System Imaging environments in combination with Virtual machines can also be used to ensure safe production deployments. By saving your current production image before updating to your new production image, you have a highly reliable contingency mechanism. If the new production environment is found to be flawed, simply roll-back to the last production image on the virtual machines with a simple update command!
Xen has become one of the most popular virtualisation platforms over the last year, although not such a young project, it is now rapidly gaining acceptance in the corporate world as a valuable alternative to VMWare.
Livre Blanc sur la virtualisation | Bearstech
by camel
(via)
on assiste à une montée en puissance des acteurs du marché, que ce soit dans le domaine propriétaire avec Microsoft et VMware, ou dans le domaine des logiciels libres, avec l’émergence de nombreux projets autour de la virtualisation. Il suffit de voir le nombre de conférences liées aux technologies de virtualisation pour l’entreprise et le nombre d’articles de presse (en ligne ou papier) traitant de la virtualisation. Cette montée en puissance n’est pas due au hasard : elle suit de très près la demande du marché, qui se tourne de plus en plus vers les technologies de virtualisation.
Ce livre blanc évoque les différentes solutions libres de virtualisation pour l'entreprise, en détaillant les différents concepts.
Il s'adresse à un public technique, mais non spécialiste de la virtualisation.
FRLinux.net Version 5.2 - Le Site d'aide a l'utilisation de Linux
by camel
(via)
Nous verrons dans cet article comment installer Xen sur une machine n'ayant pas les instructions matérielles de virtualisation (VT) en utilisant LVM pour partitionner avec flexibilité nos différentes machines virtuelles. Le tout est réalisé grâce à Debian Etch avec les bons noyaux qui vont bien. J'ai aussi utilisé le noyau officiel de chez Xen afin d'avoir quelque chose de propre (enfin dans la limite du possible). Attention, mon tutoriel prends de véritables adresses IP, je n'ai donc aucun besoin de NAT. Si tel est votre problème, achetez le numéro 100 de GLMF, il contient le serveur parfait et un setup bien plus avancé que le miens :)
December 2007
Installation de Windows XP sous GNU/LINUX avec KVM - Ludovics weblog
by camel
& 2 others
Je souhaitai pourvoir virtualisé divers systèmes d'exploitation GNU/Linux, Windows... Est ce de manière simple et rapide, sans que la maintenance (mise à jour..) de la solution retenu ne soit laborieuse. Voilà pourquoi mon choix c'est porté sur KVM.
Qui plus est :
* il est libre;
* intégré au noyau Linux;
* simple et performant;
VMfind - Virtual Appliance Search: Wiki
by camel
VMfind is the online community & search network for virtualization technology with a focus on, pre-configured virtual appliances, tech papers, documentation, forums and blogs.
Download of the day: Oracle VM
by camel
Virtualization is the process of abstracting computing resources such that multiple operating system and application images can share a single physical server, bringing significant cost-of-ownership and manageability benefits. Through its Oracle VM product, Oracle offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization for heterogeneous applications.
Oracle VM is free server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, and is three times more efficient than other server virtualization products.
Consisting of Xen’s open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based management console, Oracle VM provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools, running on x86 and x86-64-based systems, across an enterprise.
November 2007
[Linux] Installer Linux sans repartitionner - La solution
by shadoko
(via)
ne partition virtuelle dans L
October 2007
CodeWeavers - CrossOver Mac
by fredbird
& 4 others
CrossOver Mac allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac. CrossOver includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing Windows software simple and fast. Once installed, your application integrates seamlessly in OS X. Just click and run your application directly from the OS X Finder. Clicking a Windows file or document — including email attachments — will launch the appropriate Windows program, allowing you to work on the files. Best of all, you do it all easily and affordably, without needing a Microsoft operating system license.
VMware Fusion Overview, Run Windows on Mac, Virtual PC on Mac - VMware
by fredbird
Seamlessly run Windows applications alongside Mac applications with the Unity features in VMware Fusion. Find and launch Windows applications quickly with the VMware Fusion launcher. Switch between Windows and Mac applications quickly with Exposé. Minimize Windows applications to the Mac OS X Dock.
September 2007
