Thoughts on improving OpenStack GIT commit practice/history
The following document presented for discussion is based on my experience over the past few months getting involved with OpenStack Nova through learning the codebase, examining its history, writing...
View ArticleA review of the 1st London OpenStack Meetup
Last night I attended the 1st London OpenStack Meetup, accompanied by fellow Red Hatters, Richard Morrell & Steve Hardy. The event was held in the “Bluefin” building on the south bank of the...
View ArticleAnnounce: libvirt 1.0.0 release and 7th birthday
Today libvirt reached the symbolic milestone of a 1.0.0 release. This is not because of any particular major new feature compared to the previous 0.10.2 release, but rather we picked 1.0.0 as a way of...
View ArticleKVM Forum: building application sandboxes on top of KVM or LXC using libvirt
This week I have spent my time at LinuxCon Europe and KVM Forum 2012. I gave a talk titled “Building application sandboxes on top of KVM or LXC using libvirt”. For those who enquired afterwards, the...
View ArticleWhat was new in libvirt for the OpenStack Nova Folsom release
The Folsom release of OpenStack has been out for a few weeks now, and I had intended to write this post much earlier, but other things (moving house, getting married & travelling to LinuxCon Europe...
View ArticleWhat DevStack does to your host when setting up OpenStack on Fedora 17
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m not really a fan of giant shell scripts which ask for unrestricted sudo access without telling you what they’re going todo. Unfortunately DevStack is one such...
View ArticleInstalling a 4 node Fedora 18 OpenStack Folsom cluster with PackStack
For a few months now Derek has been working on a tool called PackStack, which aims to facilitate & automate the deployment of OpenStack services. Most of the time I’ve used DevStack for deploying...
View ArticleA new (configurable) cgroups layout for libvirt with QEMU, KVM & LXC
Several years ago I wrote a bit about libvirt and cgroups in Fedora 12. Since that time, much has changed, and we’ve learnt alot about the use of cgroups, not all of it good. Perhaps the biggest change...
View ArticleAnnounce: libvirt-sandbox “Cholistan” 0.5.1 release – an application sandbox...
I pleased to announce the a new public release of libvirt-sandbox, version 0.5.1, is now available from: http://sandbox.libvirt.org/download/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD...
View ArticleCPU model configuration for QEMU/KVM on x86 hosts
With the various CPU hardware vulnerabilities reported this year, guest CPU configuration is now a security critical task. This blog post contains content I’ve written that is on its way to become part...
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