Archive for Kris Buytaert

Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium , Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits, and starting up some new projects still in stealth mode. Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.

AbiCloud from Abiquo

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Last month Abiquo announced the release of their “abiCloud”, an open source cloud computing platform for allowing companies to create and manage large, complex IT infrastructures (virtual servers, networks, applications, storage…) in a quick, simple and scalable way.
We had a chat with
Diego MariÃ±o, Co-founder & CEO of
Abiquo , he told us that
one [...]

5May2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Oracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox

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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]

30Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

On the dangers of OVF

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Usually I`m all in favour of Open Standards that are supported by different parties, and the
Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) pretty much matches these requirements.
The last
Virtualbox has support for it, Simon is telling about it being part of the new
XenConvert v2 Tech Preview .
However,
Reuven wonders why it hasn’t [...]

17Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 7 comments | Continued

Updates on Xen

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When you have been in this industry for a couple of years, you might think that the Virtualization industry has stopped innovating, that there are no new awesome features coming out anymore.
Obviously they aren’t coming at the same pace as 5-10 years ago anymore, we aren’t surprised anymore when people add Virtualization [...]

16Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Floss Virtualization Doesn’t Care About Marketing …

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It cares about Quality and Frequent code releases. The Open Source community doesn’t
wait till the week before VMWorld to announe big news, they just code along happily and when the coding is done.. they release their software.
And there was plenty of it last couple of weeks. Here’s an overview ..

The New
Virt Manager 0.70 [...]

17Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Oracle To Buy Virtual Iron?

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The rumour is spreading , but so far no official feedback from Oracle.

Local Techwire reports that there are talks between Oracle and Virtual Iron ongoing and that Oracle is aiming at Virtual Iron to expand its server virtualization management platform.
According to Local Techwire Katherine Egbert, a Jefferies & Company analyst who closely follows Red Hat, [...]

8Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Karma Koala

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With all the fuzz around Cannes.. oh wait .. nothing happened there.. that was the most boring event ever wasn’t it … we forgot to focus on where the real action is happening …
When the 9.10 Ubuntu Release, Karmic Koala, hits the wire it will be Cloud Ready or Virtualization ready or whatever you want [...]

8Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Red Hat announced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

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Today RedHat sent out 2 press releases obviously in an attempt to get Virtual visibility during VMWorld. Europe, The biggest news in those 2 press releases is the announcement of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, or the RHEV . Red Hat announced their new strategy regarding to Virtualization which [...]

23Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Citrix Open Sources VHD

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Simon Crosby just posted a blog announcing that Citrix is Open Sourcing the VHD support , their implementation of the of the Microsoft VHD virtual hard disk format to the Xen community for inclusion in the open source code base.
VHD is what XenServer uses to store file-based images, and according to Simon this [...]

19Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

XenServer for Free !

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With VMWorld Europe coming up,it seems
Citrix is trying to get VMWare out of its warm cozy mansion, it seems they plan to announce next week that they won’t charge anymore for XenServer.
Altough the underlying Xen technology is fully Open source , Citrix doesn’t plan on fully opensourcing XenServer itselve yet. So [...]

19Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

RedHat Moves Closer To Microsoft

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Earlier this week Red Hat and Microsoft announced they were going to work closer together , mainly to ensure Virtualization Interoperability. Both RedHat and Microsoft will join the other’s virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.
In short this means that Red Hat and Microsoft customers will have [...]

19Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued