Archive for the 'virtualization' Category

[ENG ]Xen vs. KVM security architecture comparison [from forum.opennet.ru - "Qubes - новая безопасная операционная система на базе Linux ..."]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint

YouTube – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: RHEV-M Demo

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

demo of the interface with comments for http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server/

Running 10M nodes linxu network for malware research /Security [LWN.net] artcile /

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Article covers SCALE8x presentation from Ronald Minnich /Scandia Nat. Labs/ about issues involved running large scale networks [ >10M nodes ] . Article contains a lot of useful links, recommended reading.

[DE] Cisco ASA, Linux und QEMU | SinusPL’s Blog

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Notes about ASA 8.02 firmware: after some tricks with hexdump, dd and gzip, the guy was able to extract linux x86 initrd image from

Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

useful article about “libvirt” – a common management interface for different visualization software

Howto: Install Linux Guest Additions + Xorg config (View topic) • virtualbox.org

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

example Xorg config for recent ubuntu/fedora

Interview: Red Hat on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization | MontanaLinux.org

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Some info about redhat new product RHEV (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), which is based on SolidICE (KVM-based) product from Qumranet, which has been recently acquired by RedHat.

Re: [Xen-devel] Red Hat dropped XEN – Xen Source [post about XEN versioning in RHEL 5]

Monday, November 9th, 2009

note from redhat engineer explaining what version of xen is used in RHEL 5.x (this is not that simple, hence this post)

Knowledge Base – How to install VMXNET network adapter and driver for VM’s in ESX Server

Friday, July 10th, 2009

by default vmware installs “pcnet32″ network card which is a software emulation of 100MB card; most ppl switch

Karesansui Project [XEN Web Management, GPL, RHEL/CentOS 5.x Compartable ]

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

web management for XEN, including installing, monitoring and console. Based on libvirt, written in python, ,uses JQuery for interface, tightvnc-java for console, SQLite [default], MySQL, PostgreSQL as database.