OpenVZ News
Utah Open Source Conference 2009
Sandy, Utah, USA, 8-10 Oct, 2009 Scott Dowdle will host an OpenVZ booth, plus will also be giving a presentation entitled Introduction to OS Virtualization, Containers, and OpenVZ.
Utah Open Source Conference 2009
Just wanted to post a blurb saying that there will be an OpenVZ booth at the Utah Open Source Conference 2009. I will also be giving a presentation entitled, Introduction to OS Virtualization, Containers, and OpenVZ. So, if you live anywhere near Utah or the mid-west, please try to attend and stop by the booth [...]
FUDforum upgrade and troubles
I finally did an upgrade of forum software used on forum.openvz.org. As any big upgrade, it went not so flawlessly as I wanted it to. Read on for some details. The first problem is “Compact messages” operation caused all the messages to, hmm, be ultimately compacted, or in plain words deleted. Have restored it from [...]
wiki spam fighting
Yet again I spent almost full working day trying to improve antispam protection on wiki.openvz.org. Currently 99% of all spam on the web is link spam — bad guys are adding lots of links to the sites they promote in order to increase page rank values for that sites. In fact they get no profit [...]
Back from the LinuxTag
First, hello to all! Second, my friend Bernhard and I helped Kir with his booth on the LinuxTag. It was a great pleasure for us because Kir is a really cool guy. We had the chance to hear and learn a lot about Kernel development and OpenVZ in general. Also it was very nice to [...]
Conferences, conferences…
I am almost ready for the LinuxTag, my flight from Moscow to Berlin is tomorrow mid-day. I have prepared booklets, even in German (thanks to Mario and Bernhard, OpenVZ users from Austria who will also help me with the booth). And I will even have a monitor to demo Overo Gumstix running Linux (thanks to [...]
LinuxTag: any volunteers?
I have just got my passport back from the German embassy today, with a shiny new Schengen visa and booked tickets to Berlin. Yes, this is for LinuxTag event which will take place in Berlin, Germany, from 24th to 27th of June. OpenVZ will have a booth on the show. Are there any OpenVZ users [...]
Completion in vzctl
There is a nice feature in vzctl (well, technically not in vzctl binary itself; it just comes in vzctl package) that many people don’t know about — completion. This basically makes it able to save a few keystrokes when typing. Say you want to create a container. You type vzct and press <TAB> — it [...]
new templates are almost here
I am preparing an updated set of precreated templates; those should be ready tonight or tomorrow, available from the usual place. In addition to a bunch of updated templates, this time we add a few new ones: – Fedora 10 (aka Cambridge) – openSUSE 11.1 – Ubuntu 9.04 (aka The Jaunty Jackalope) OpenSUSE is interesting [...]
LinuxTag 2009
Berlin, Germany, June 24-27, 2009 OpenVZ project will have a booth at this year’s LinuxTag — one of the biggest and greatest Linux shows in Germany.
