Friday, September 21, 2012

Thoughts on Linux Containers (LXC)

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I have been using Linux Containers (LXC) to run lightweight virtual machines for about a year now. I revisited LXC this week because I tem...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

QEMU 2011 Year in Review

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As 2011 comes to an end I want to look back at the highlights from the QEMU community this year. Development progress feels good, the maili...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Pictures from the Computer History Museum

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I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA when attending Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2011. The museum is fantasti...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Preparing and storing patch revisions as git tags using git-publish

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This weekend I got down to solving a workflow problem that has been bugging me for some time: preparing and storing patch revisions . Manu...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Enhanced VMDK support now in QEMU

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QEMU now has greatly enhanced VMDK VMware disk image file support, thanks to Fam Zheng's hard work during Google Summer of Code 2011. P...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

How to share files instantly between virtual machines and host

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It's pretty common to need to copy files between a virtual machine and the host. This can be drivers or installers from the host into t...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

QEMU Internals: vhost architecture

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This post explains how vhost provides in-kernel virtio devices for KVM. I have been hacking on vhost-scsi and have answered questions about...