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.
Qlusters Shuts Down
Qlusters, the company formerly behind the openQRM project shutters only about a year after it raised $10 million in a Series C round. The last 30 employees of the company were informed earlier this week of the company’s decision.
1Jul2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | ContinuedopenQRM 4.0 (Beta), Going Strong
Matt Rechenburg has just announced the beta version of openQRM 4.0. Not even that long after Qlusters decided to set the project free, the openQRM team has changed directions in a way Qlusters never would have allowed.
18Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedA Conversation About Virtualization Security, The Quotes
Last week, an interesting conference call took place with several industry leaders in the virtualization security (virtsec) area, initiated by Virtualization.com. Here are some of the most interesting quotes from that conversation.
11Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | ContinuedBuild Your Own Cloud!
Given enough hardware, you can now build your own Amazon Elastic Cloud or similar platform. And all in Open Source. A group of developers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently released EUCALPYTUS, a tool that can make your personal Cloud dreams come true!
6Jun2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedUlteo Releases Ulteo Virtual Desktop Beta, Wants To Get Linux Applications on Windows Desktops
Ulteo has just announced the beta version of their “Ulteo Virtual Desktopâ€, which allows you to use a large variety of Linux applications on the Windows operating system, and all features that are already available with the Ulteo Application System.
20May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued$500 Million For XenSource, Where Did All The Money Go?
In August of last year, Citrix and XenSource agreed on an acquisition price of $500 million in a mixture of cash and Citrix stock. The deal came trough in late October of 2007. Now 7 months later, Philip wonders where all the money went.
17May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedXen Summit Boston, Partial Schedule Announced
Stephen Spector has just announced the current agenda for the upcoming Boston Xen Summit.
Ian Pratt and Keir Fraser will kick off the event with an overview of the Xen roadmap.
KVM vs Xen, Who Will Win The Fight?
As KVM is gaining more and more popularity by being adopted in several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, the battle between different virtualization technologies continues to be interesting. Meanwhile, Ian Pratt and Benny Schnaider are using strong words against each other.
9May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedXen API Project Announced
Stephen Spector, Xen.org community manager has just announced that he’s calling for the community willing to work on completing the existing Xen-API specification.
28Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM Forum 2008 Schedule Has Been Announced
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schedule for the upcoming KVM 2008 forum in Nappa, CA is up.
Qumranet, as the main KVM sponsor, is inviting all KVM developers to their
second KVM summit on June 10 to 13th at the Marriot Napa Valley, California.
Many of the world’s top kernel developers will gather to discuss the state of […]
Xen 3.2.1 Released
Keir Fraser has announced the availability of Xen 3.2.1 and 3.1.4, both bugfix releases in the Xen 3.1 and 3.2 series. The 3.2.1 release contains architectural improvements and new user-visible features.
27Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedOttawa Linux Symposium Issues CFP For Mini Summit on Virtualization
The Ottawa Linux Symposium today announced its Mini Summits that will be taking place on the Tuesday before the actual Symposium. One of these summits is the “Virtualization Technology & Management” Mini Summit which has just issued a Call for Presentations.
22Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued![[image]](http://mowser.com/img?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.mofuse.com%2Fimages%2Fbadges%2Fbadge_blue.png)
