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rackspace #openstack cloud uses #xen hypervisor

rackspace openstack cloud uses xen hypervisor

 

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is freely re-distributable !

Oracle Enterprise Linux (and Oracle VM) is freely RE-distributable !
http://wiki.oracle.com/page/Unbreakable+Linux

Yes, it's free download but also free to re-distribute including copyrights and trademarks, see the EULA for more details.

And theres now a public yum server for OEL that offers a free and convenient way to install packages from the Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM installation media via a yum client.

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Amazon EC2 customers in EU have to pay VAT

http://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/estimated-taxes-text.html

Value Added Tax for European Union Customers

Amazon Web Services LLC is currently required to charge value added taxes (VAT) on sales of Amazon Web Services to European Union customers. All VAT collected from customers in the European Union will be paid to the tax authority of the appropriate EU member state.

Test Page for the Apache HTTP Server_1225288755113
Test Page for the Apache HTTP Server_1225288755113

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Whats your favorite virtualisation platform ?

Whats your favorite virtualisation platform ?

Open

  • KVM
  • OpenVZ
  • VirtualBox
  • Xen

Closed

  • VMware

PS I used to be a huge VMware fan but now increasingly use Oracle Xen VM Server and OpenVZ !

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FOSDEM open source presentation videos

Oracle joins the Open Source community

Sun & IBM have been active in the Open Source community for many years and now Oracle seems keen to join them !

Oracle & Open Source GNU/Linux

Oracle & Open Source XEN Virtualisation

Oracle & Open Source IDE

Oracle & Open Source Languages

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MEMSET XEN ?

I've just rebooted (# reboot) my MEMSET server logged back in and entered

# uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.16-u6-p4-pae #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 17:14:15 GMT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

and

# dmesg

…
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed

  ***************************************************************
  ***************************************************************
  ** WARNING: Currently emulating unsupported memory accesses  **
  **          in /lib/tls glibc libraries. The emulation is    **
  **          slow. To ensure full performance you should      **
  **          install a 'xen-friendly' (nosegneg) version of   **
  **          the library, or disable tls support by executing **
  **          the following as root:                           **
  **          mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disabled                    **
  ** Offending process: init (pid=1)                           **
  ***************************************************************
  ***************************************************************

Continuing…

EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Adding 131064k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:131064k
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on loop0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
…

Does this reference to 'xen-friendly' actually mean that I have finally found a true XEN VPS VM webhost provider ?

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