Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD/PC-BSD Released!

Bordeaux 1.8.2 adds support for Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 Player, IrfanView 4.25 the extreamly popular image viewer and editor. This release aslo bundles in Cabextract, Wget and Unzip to remove external dependencies. Our winetricks script has been synced to the latest official release, Steam should now install and run once again, There has also been many small bug fixes and tweaks.

(Bordeaux 1.8.2 for FreeBSD Released)
(Bordeaux 1.8.2 for PC-BSD Released)

Virtualbox on FreeBSD is ready for testing.

After the announcement from Alexander Eichner about Virtualbox on FreeBSD, we started the work on a port for FreeBSD. Now we think that we solved the most problems and are ready for the first Call for Testing.

How to install PC-BSD 7 in VMware Fusion

This tutorial will guide you every step of the way through installing PC-BSD 7 in VMware Fusion (version 2.0).

How To Upgrade FreeBSD Jail ( OS Level Virtualization )

I've FreeBSD jail configured as explained in man pages using make world options. Now I've upgrade my base FreeBSD 7.0 system to FreeBSD 7 patch level 4. How do I upgrade my Jail (FreeBSD VPS) so that everything get updated inside jail?

A Virtualized Linux System For Windows

Ulteo today unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows.

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Google SketchUp 6 on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine

This should work in both Linux and FreeBSD, though I've only tested this on FreeBSD...

Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Etch

Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on Xen. In this tutorial I will explain how to create one virtual Xen machine (called an instance) on a cluster of two physical nodes, and how to manage and failover this instance between the two physical nodes.

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New OpenVZ for Linux 2.6.22 includes live migration

The team behind the OpenVZ project will announce today the availability of its operating system virtualization software for the latest stable release of the Linux kernel. OpenVZ for Linux 2.6.22 now supports user ID namespaces for improved security, and has new process ID namespace code that makes live migration possible.

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OS Virtualization on FreeBSD vs. Linux

I was talking to somebody at OSCON last week and they made an off-hand comment about using FreeBSD jail to isolate software applications in a development environment.

Being a linux guy, it took a while to sink in that jail was a form of operating system virtualization.

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FreeBSD/xen

As people might have noticed, it's been awfully quiet here. That is mostly because I've been so damn busy with my new project: FreeBSD/xen. I assume people will know what Xen is, if not, wikipedia is your friend :-)

Quite some time ago, Kip Macy has been working on the port, but eventually started working on other things. I'm trying to continue his work, and currently, most of it will be in the Perforce branch. Mind that the current focus is the domU support (ie. using FreeBSD as a guest OS), but dom0 (using FreeBSD as the host OS) is of course also TODO :-)

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Installing FreeBSD 6.x under VMWare Server

First of all you will need to install the host OS, and in this case we are using Windows Server 2003X64 Standard Edition R2 which must include IIS, however could have easily been an approve Linux variant, or even the VMWare ESX solution. In either case it is probably a good idea to ensure that all of the patches and updates have been applied, I mean it is still Windows after all. The nice thing about running FreeBSD in an instance under VMWare Server or any other hardware virtualization platform is that the instance can be easily relocated to new physical hardware without much concern for that new hardware.

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Performance Evaluation of Xen Vs. OpenVZ

Compared to an operating-system-level virtualization technology like OpenVZ, Xen — a hypervisor-level virtualization technology that allows multiple operating systems to be run with and without para-virtualization — trades off performance for much better isolation and security. OpenVZ's performance advantage due to running virtual containers in a single operating system kernel can be significant. A performance evaluation study (PDF) done by researchers at the University of Michigan and HP labs provides insight into how big a performance penalty Zen pays and what causes the overheads (primarily L2 cache misses).

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Discover the Linux Kernel Virtual Machine

Linux® and flexibility go hand in hand, and the options for virtualization are no different. But recently, a change in the Linux virtualization landscape has appeared with the introduction of the Kernel virtual Machine, or KVM. KVM is the first virtualization solution to be part of the mainline Linux kernel (V2.6.20). KVM supports the virtualization of Linux guest operating systems -- even Windows® with hardware that is virtualization-aware. Learn about the architecture of the Linux KVM as well as why its tight integration with the kernel may change the way you use Linux.

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VMware enters the Linux kernel

The next revision of the Linux kernel is to include a virtualization feature developed by VMware, called VMI.

The stable update, version 2.6.21, will then allow para-virtualized operating systems -- Linux itself -- to run inside virtual machines on top of, and to some extent sharing, the Linux kernel. Para-virtualization is a technique that offers virtual machine performance in exchange for OS flexibility; the guest OS has to be modified to understand that it's running inside a virtual machine, and must be the same as the host.

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