Archive for the 'Virtualization' Category



Hanging out at OSCon and the TechCrunch party

Just wanted to post a quick note to say I’m in Portland this week for the O’Reilly Open Source convention thru Thursday and will be at the TechCrunch party in San Jose Friday night. If you’re going to be at either of those events I’d love to meet some new people while we’re here. I […]

How to install Trac and Subversion in 10 minutes or less

Trac is a great application to track software development projects, but anyone who’s tried to install it knows it can be a real pain at times. This is especially true if you want to get it working on Windows or Mac OS X. Because there’s such obvious pain here, we decided to give it the […]

Virtual Appliance use within Development

Nick Halstead has posted some thoughts about using virtual appliances for doing development.
For me the ‘pre-built’ & ‘pre-configured’ aspects are the most important given that time equals money and the cost of installing the OS and configuring any applications can take large amounts of time unless you have dedicate personal for such tasks.
Read the full […]

rPath simplifies VMWare virtual appliance certification

rPath has added a couple features to rBuilder in order to simplify the process of building virtual appliances for the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace.
Raleigh, N.C. (June 6, 2007) – rPath™, provider of a platform for creating and maintaining virtual appliances, today announced that virtual appliances intended for the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (http://vam.vmware.com) can be […]

Parallels introduces a virtual appliance directory and developer network

Parallels has launched their new virtual appliances directory and the Parallels Developer Network.

Parallels, Inc., maker of award-winning desktop virtualization solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, announced today the Parallels Technology Network (PTN) – an online community for users, as well as developers using Parallels virtualization technology to deliver their software in self-contained virtual […]

JumpBox virtual appliance platform updated to 1.0 RC1

Over at JumpBox we just posted the first release candidate for the JumpBox virtual appliance platform and along with it new releases of all of our virtual appliances.
JumpBox virtual appliances aim to bring ease of use to the deployment and management of Open Source server based applications. They’re completely focused on delivering a simple […]

Reflections on Virtualization for the SMB

Computer Technology Review is taking a look at virtualization from the perspective of the small to mid-size business. This is good to see as most articles are very focused on the enterprise space even though virtualization can bring some really big benefits to smaller companies as well.
It is all too tempting to look at the […]

Gallery virtual appliance updated to version 1.1

Thanks to some generous help for the folks at rPath, the Gallery virtual appliance has been updated to version 1.1. Changes in the release include.

1. Updated Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 versions
The new version includes Gallery 1.5.6 and Gallery 2.2.1
2. More Gallery 2 modules enabled, and Downloadable Plugins are also available.
3. SCSI emulation instead of […]

VirtualBox for Mac OS X released

Innotek has announced the availability of the first beta of VirtualBox for Mac OS X. VirtualBox is a new entry in the virtualization space and is particularly interesting because it has been Open Sourced under the GPL license.
This makes the Mac OS X virtualization space a three way race with Parallels, VMWare Fusion […]

Virtual appliances cure appliance bloat

From Network World, “Virtual appliances cure appliance bloat”. The article outlines some solid benefits to virtual appliances from the perspective of the enterprise.

* Streamlined product evaluations: Instead of waiting to get hardware in-house for evaluation, you can download a trial virtual appliance and begin using it in a matter of hours without having to […]