Ubuntu promises DIY Amazon cloud

Ahmed Kamal email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 26 08:18:40 UTC 2009


What about open-nebula http://opennebula.org/
It has KVM support today, besides Xen, and can "extend" the private cloud to
EC2. Any idea how the two compare

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 26 2009, Rahul Sundaram said:
> >> Neal Becker wrote:
> >> > Sounds interesting:
> >> > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=117904
> >>
> >> It is just packaging up
> >>
> >> http://eucalyptus.cs.ucsb.edu/
> >
> > One problem is that Eucalyptus is Xen based -- since the Xen dom0 work
> > isn't done upstream yet (and thus we're not shipping a dom0 in Fedora),
> > there's more than just packaging to be done if someone really wants to
> > integrate this into Fedora
>
>
> The new 1.5 version has kvm support is my understanding. And
> Eucalyptus just opened up their bzr repository for public consumption
> so you can start pulling the 1.5 tree and working with the kvm
> support.
>
> Canonical has had preferential access to pre-release 1.5 code for
> awhile and has been shipping unofficial 1.5 versions as part of Jaunty
> alpha testing. In fact the only way to get the kvm enabled version up
> until last week was to take the tarballs from Jaunty source packages
> as the upstream project itself was not making 1.5 pre-release code
> available even as a bzr tree.  I should have talked to the project
> lead sooner than I did about making source publicly accessible. I
> didn't expect them to give preferential access to Canonical.
>
> I think there are a number of java related deps that would also have
> to be worked on, which makes this a somewhat more complicated thing to
> get packaged up.
>
> -jef
>
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