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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 discuss our OpenVZ server farm at work with Kir's Know How. Quote "Kir: Uhh, you perl scripts are really hardcoded" - :o)

I hope we will see us before the next LinuxTag next year. As we spoke about we decide to help the project by doing support on the forum/blog and maybe some wiki stuff (system use case).

For all readers we took some pictures from the booth and us. You can find them on our blog page systec.blogsite.org.

Thank you - It was a lot of fun - Mario

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 Björn from XtreemFS). So if you are visiting LinuxTag this year, come to say hello!

If you happen to be on a different continent, North America, then I welcome you to visit LinuxSymposium. This is a quite a big annual event, and unlike LinuxWorld (which is now called OpenSourceWorld) they haven't changed their name for 10 years (well, hmm, actually they dropped the Ottawa prefix since this year it will be held in Montreal -- but at least they left the Linux part, the one that is most important for me). For the LinuxSymposium I am preparing a tutorial and a BoF. So, again, come to say hello! :)

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 living not too far from Berlin* who can help me with the booth (i.e. be a booth star together with me)? Please contact me by leaving a comment here or email to kir at openvz dot org, I need your help.

* from my perspective every German city is not too far from Berlin :) but YMMV.

LinuxWorld Cologne, Germany

We have just returned back from Germany, where I was presenting OpenVZ at Linux World Cologne. For the first time, we had a separate dedicated booth, and we really enjoyed that.

For those three days, we have met hundreds of people, distributed about 100 of OpenVZ DVDs and booklets, and said about million of words telling and showing people what is OpenVZ, how it can be used, what are pros and cons and so on. Surprisingly, a lot of people found it's just what they need.

We also met a number of existing OpenVZ users — for example, one was using it in a small (25 permanent employees + 25 interns) commercial company, where they need a Samba server, a Collax server, and development server, all of three for some reason requiring three different Linux distributions to run on. So, instead of having three servers, they used OpenVZ to create three VEs. It is a production environment working flawlessly for a few months.

I have also met a student who did his thesis on comparing Xen and OpenVZ performance — the thesis is in German but we might translate a part of it later. If you guessed that OpenVZ outperforms Xen than you are damn right.

Finally, in a true spirit of open source, we helped a Debian OpenVZ user to fix a minor misconfiguration and he was finally able to run OpenVZ on his notebook. He is using OpenVZ as a replacement for UML.

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