25 Jan 2016
I did a talk titled 'KVM Weather Report' at the SCaLE conference in Pasadena, California yesterday. The slides are available at this location. The talk introduced the KVM stack (Linux, KVM, QEMU, libvirt); briefly went over some features and the communities around the projects, and discussed some of the new...
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16 Dec 2015
Hot on the heels of the QEMU 2.4 release, we have QEMU version 2.5 releasing today. QEMU creates the virtual machine which guest operating systems run on top off. QEMU also handles host-specific things, like the storage and networking on the host. Given the wide scope of this project, there...
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16 Dec 2015
Let's Encrypt have lauched their public beta, and they're now offering SSL certificates to everyone. The process is very easy and quite easy to automate. However, there's a catch: these certificates expire in a few days (90 days as of now), so they have to be renewed often. That's where...
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18 Sep 2015
It's 30 years of GNU -- 30 years of freedom and 30 years of owning one's computers. I can't imagine a life where I don't have control over the software I run. I'm going to be eternally thankful to RMS and Linus for starting the mass movements that have not...
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07 Sep 2015
QEMU is the software that creates virtual hardware which guest operating systems run on top of. All (well, almost all -- see note below[*]) the hardware that a guest OS has access to is actually written to some specifications in software -- i.e. no physical hardware is involved. For the...
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04 Aug 2015
In its 8th edition, the KVM Forum is moving back to North America this year, co-located with LinuxCon NA in Seattle. It starts with a KVM + Xen hackathon and the (invite-only) QEMU Summit on the 18th August, followed by talks and BOFs on the 19th, 20th, and the 21st. ...
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11 Jul 2015
Yeah. The monkey's sharper than Jared in the selfie dept.
Jared, thanks for being a friend of FUDCon India. You rock!
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24 Mar 2015
I've attempted to write down all I said while delivering my devconf.cz talk on Live Migrating QEMU-KVM Virtual Machines. The full text is on the Red Hat Developer Blog:
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/24/live-migrating-qemu-kvm-virtual-machines/
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11 Mar 2015
The CFP for FUDCon Pune 2015 is now closed. We have had an overwhelming response: 141 talks/workshops submitted. This is more than twice the number of sessions we received for the 2011 edition. Talk submissions were pouring in till the last minute when we flipped the switch for the CFP...
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09 Mar 2015
I've written previously about random numbers in virtual machines. KVM still remains the only hypervisor to offer an RNG device to guests. Quite a lot of exciting changes have landed in the upstream Linux kernel since that last post. I have written an article in the RHEL blog about it:...
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