The bulk of this post was written way back in April 2012. If you’re just coming here, and looking to setup oVirt, you should probably skip down to the postscript for an update, and ignore most of the content here (as it’s applicable to an older oVirt version …
more ...I’m working from home today, connected by VPN. I’m in the process of testing a bunch of Puppet stuff, and needed to re-image a bunch of VirtualBox VMs on my desktop at work, using PXE boot to Cobbler. I’m only connected to the desktop by SSH, and …
more ...At work, I have a pretty beefy workstation (a Dell OptiPlex 990 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600 and 8GB RAM running Fedora 16) that I usually run a few VMs on as my test/development environment. I usually reboot my machine every other week or so, and start …
more ...As I mentioned in Downtime past few days, coping with storms, as a result of some things I noticed with a recent power outage, I’ve decided to take the leap to virtualization. Given the cost of current hardware that supports HVM (Intel VT-x or AMD-V ), I immediately …
more ...From PRNewsWire: Microsoft and Novell Deliver Joint Virtualization Solution Through Partners. The headline of the press release: “Supported by Dell and other channel partners, solution includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server running as optimized guest on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.”
Now, maybe I’m not up on the news regarding my …
more ...Some links for today:
Microsoft’s new promised on interoperability, open standards. etc. - somewhat ironic given the Office Open XML debacle on “standards”. And Red Hat’s worries about it. (Ars Technica)
Groklaw’s lengthy analysis of the promises.
Pakistan removed from the Internet, causes global YouTube outage.
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