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new openvz t-shirt

OpenVZ will have a booth at the upcoming SCALE8x conference in Los Angeles, California, USA.

I want to design a new t-shirt for the conference (and other future events). So far we have two designs (about which I wrote before here): first "container lifecycle" and then "kernel classics" (you can see both at the shop). Now I want to have something as geeky as the first design, which looks like a screenshot from a terminal, but using a dark-colored t-shirt (I think dark green will fit well).

If you have any suggestions for the design, or yet better can draw it (or a mock-up) -- please speak up here or email me (kir at openvz org). If OpenVZ will take your design I promise to post two t-shirts to you.

Getting ready for SCALE7x

In about a week I will be in Los Angeles for the annual Southern California Linux Expo, a.k.a. SCALE. It is quite a big event. Well, not quite as big as LinuxWorld or Linux Symposium, but still big enough and growing bigger each year. I'd like to say this conference is of good spirit, whatever that means.

Like the last year, we were granted a booth in the dot-org area (#63), plus I will be giving a talk titled "Recent advances in the Linux resource management", talking about cgroups, memory controller and stuff. Because of the booth I am not coming along -- Lesya Novaselskaya will hostess the booth. Lesya is working for Parallels as a Quality Assurance engineer, her job is to test various software including OpenVZ in order to make it bullet-proof and rock solid.

We still have lots of things to do to be fully prepared for the event. I have already created a brand new OpenVZ t-shirt design codenamed "kernel classics" which you can see on the right (also, here is the back design in hi-res). It plays around the fact that we name our 2.6.26- and 2.6.27-based kernels after famous Russian writers and painters, respectively. If you will be at the conference and tell us your OpenVZ story, you get your t-shirt. If you are not going to visit SCALE but eager to get such a t-shirt (not the same since I'm ordering from a different place, but with the very same graphics) you can buy it from cafepress (previous "container lifecycle" t-shirt is also available).

I hope I will also prepare the new DVD images containing a live CD OpenVZ distro which could be used to get a feeling of what OpenVZ is without installing it, plus all the latest kernels, tools and templates.

SCALE6x and Florida Linux Show

Better late than never, these are my impressions about SCALE and Florida Linux Show we (me and my colleague, an OpenVZ kernel developer Andrey Mirkin) went to in February.

Back in 2006 I was a speaker at SCALE4x, so I can compare and say SCALE is getting bigger and better! This time it was three days, with three parallel conference tracks and about 80 booths, one of which was OpenVZ.

The booth traffic was moderate to high, we were busy explaining OpenVZ to people, distributing booklets and live CDs, and burning more CDs. For the first time we used lightscribe to have a nice image on CDs, and I can say it works pretty well, but requires about 15 minutes for the image to be "scribed" (and about the same time for the actual data).

Also we did a talk on live migration which was quite technical and interesting. Talk was mostly delivered by Andrey, and this is the first time he did a talk in English. I hope that SCALE people will upload the audio/video from the talk -- it should be interesting enough. Unfortunately we were not able to listen to any other talks -- this is the price for having own booth.

Last day of the show was Sunday, and overnight we flew to another coast, to deliver the OpenVZ talk to participants of the Florida Linux Show. FLS is (I hope yet) much smaller than SCALE, and it is one day only, but the organisation is about the same: the expo floor and the conference tracks. My talk was attended by about 50 people, of which about 15 were asking good questions.

I managed to show the live migration of a container running pacman xscreensaver, but it was interrrupted when I raised a hand with the second notebook to show it -- apparently both the power supply and the battery got disconnected so it suddenly switched off. I continued with the slides while Andrey fixed the notebook, and then I showed the demo (without touching the second notebook this time). This "demo effect" happens from time to time, and the more people are attending the more the probability that it will happen. Anyway, all's well that ends well.

In the evening we had a dinner with some FLS participants, including Jon "maddog" Hall who was the keynote speaker, and Dan Trevino, a member of local Ubuntu community who helps us with OpenVZ/Ubuntu integration.

Next day we were in New York and met with Vasily Tarasov, our colleague who is now taking the post graduate courses in Stony Brook University. He is working on various kernel-related projects and maybe will help us a bit with OpenVZ.

I am happy to announce that OpenVZ is taking part in two Linux events this February. As always, we will be happy to meet with OpenVZ users.

First event is Southern California Linux Expo, which will be held in Los Angeles, CA, 8 to 10 Feb. Me and my colleague, Andrey Mirkin, will give a talk titled "Containers Checkpointing and Live Migration". Plus, we will have a booth there, with all the usual stuff: demos, live CDs etc. I've been to SCALE back in 2006 and liked it (see an old post here).


The next day, 11 Feb, in Jacksonville, FL, we will be at the Florida Linux Show, giving an introductory talk about OpenVZ. Since Florida is quite far away from Los Angeles, and the event is next day, it means six hours flight overnight. Anyway it's shorter than Moscow to LA. :)

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