CloudStack 4.2 is ready for release but the site has not updated so that you can just update your repo and install or upgrade so in this post I'll go thru the process I use to compile from source. You can use this process for other versions but some things may change. You could...
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oVirt 3.3 is now release. If you have no idea what oVirt is or what it's used for put simply it's pretty similar to VMware vCenter except open source and doesn't manage ESX. oVirt is a centralized management solution used to manage KVM hosts and GlusterFS as well as other aspects of your virtualization...
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If you've wanted to access one of the cloudstack system vm's but couldn't find out how well this is your lucky day.
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Before adding your hosts in the cloudstack manager you need to pressed the system vm template. This does not go over the process for setting up the storage backend (NFS).
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Finally there's an easy way to deploy Openstack on Redhat and CentOS. RDO is a community of people using and deploying OpenStack on Red Hat and Red Hat-based platforms. I have always thought that it's been much too complicated to install and setup Openstack and all it's components. With RDO I was able to...
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If you have installed the cloudstack agent and it will not start you may be seeing these errors.
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CloudStack is now at 4.1 and there have been many changes. This means that the installation process has also changed so I wanted to update the process I outlined from a previous post (http://thehyperadvisor.com/?p=2093) for CloudStack 4.1. I will outline some of those changes, which is really only one for the kvm host server,...
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So, this is my second day working with totally converting from having and Vmware hypervisor. You can read the Day One blog here. Today I was task to install a few vm guests, totally wipe my main Vista x64 desktop and install Fedora 12 with KVM. Again I choose the base install during the...
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I made and went forth with the decision to convert to Fedora 12 and the KVM hypervisor. This decision was not easy but hey... change is not always bad right? I just wanted to see how the KVM hypervisor and tools compared to Vmware VI3 and vShpere 4.
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Sun Virtualbox is out with a major update version 3.0. I have blogged before about how much I like Virtualbox over Vmware when it comes to Linux desktop virtualization. VirtualBox is not only supported on Linux though. VirtualBox has support for Windows, Linux, and OS X. VirtualBox also comes in 32bit and 64bit version.
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