May 10th, 2006
I am finally back at home after the Linux Tag event, and can now summarize it.
We were together with Kirill Korotaev (a.k.a. dev), our kernel team leader, at the OpenVZ booth shared with SWsoft and their partner Thomas Krenn, so we had our own "little corner" to show OpenVZ on our two laptops. We also had the leaflets (in English and German) and a DVD to give away.
On the laptops we were showing command line interfaces, how to use vzctl to create VEs and set its resource limits, how user beancounters and disk quota works etc. etc. But the most amazing thing was definitely the live migration feature, which was shown using X screensaver running inside a VE and accessible via a VNC client. During the migration the screensaver was paused for a few seconds and then continued to run — but on the another laptop! So, from a user's point of view, migration looks like some kind of network delay.
Also, on May the 5th (which, coincidentally, was also my birthday) me and Kirill held a 1.5 hour workshop about virtualization and OpenVZ. Half of the workshop was a presentation on different virtualization technologies in general, and OpenVZ in particular. Another half was a live demo of some features OpenVZ have, including of course the live migration demo.
The workshop was great and attracted about 50 people (or might be more) — the room was pretty full. We had a lot of good questions, and many people came to our booth after the workshop to ask some more questions.
We were together with Kirill Korotaev (a.k.a. dev), our kernel team leader, at the OpenVZ booth shared with SWsoft and their partner Thomas Krenn, so we had our own "little corner" to show OpenVZ on our two laptops. We also had the leaflets (in English and German) and a DVD to give away.
On the laptops we were showing command line interfaces, how to use vzctl to create VEs and set its resource limits, how user beancounters and disk quota works etc. etc. But the most amazing thing was definitely the live migration feature, which was shown using X screensaver running inside a VE and accessible via a VNC client. During the migration the screensaver was paused for a few seconds and then continued to run — but on the another laptop! So, from a user's point of view, migration looks like some kind of network delay.
Also, on May the 5th (which, coincidentally, was also my birthday) me and Kirill held a 1.5 hour workshop about virtualization and OpenVZ. Half of the workshop was a presentation on different virtualization technologies in general, and OpenVZ in particular. Another half was a live demo of some features OpenVZ have, including of course the live migration demo.
The workshop was great and attracted about 50 people (or might be more) — the room was pretty full. We had a lot of good questions, and many people came to our booth after the workshop to ask some more questions.
<shameless-plug>
SWsoft, a sponsor of OpenVZ project and a leader in hosting automation solutions, is holding a hosting summit. If you use (or want to use) OpenVZ for hosting, consider visiting this event, which will take place in Northern Virginia/D.C. (very close to Washington Dulles airport) from 30th of May till June the 1st. More info...
Hyatt Dulles hotel, in which the summit will take place, offer a discount to attendees: the price is $149/night if you reserve before May 22nd. Just mention SWsoft while registering at the hotel.
</shameless-plug>
SWsoft, a sponsor of OpenVZ project and a leader in hosting automation solutions, is holding a hosting summit. If you use (or want to use) OpenVZ for hosting, consider visiting this event, which will take place in Northern Virginia/D.C. (very close to Washington Dulles airport) from 30th of May till June the 1st. More info...
Hyatt Dulles hotel, in which the summit will take place, offer a discount to attendees: the price is $149/night if you reserve before May 22nd. Just mention SWsoft while registering at the hotel.
</shameless-plug>

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