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Kurbli — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:08:44 GMT

Virtualization Support for ISA and RRAS (A frustrated reader gets a response from Microsoft)

Kurbli — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:21:47 GMT

Rendkívül érdekes történet. A biztonsággal és virtualizálással foglalkozóknak el kell olvasni.

Over the past few months, I've been doing a lot of traveling and I've neglected this blog. (If for some reason, anybody is interested in how I spent my summer, see the end of this post for my quick summary. It feels odd to be writing about myself, but I guess that's what people do in blogs.) Anyway, I'm back now and have a million things to write about. Microsoft has been incredibly busy!
I'll start by sharing a letter from a reader, Jeff Vandervoort, who asked me to get a response from Microsoft. At the end of Jeff's letter, you'll see the response Microsoft gave me. I'll be eager to hear what you think.
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Virtualization Support for ISA and RRAS

VirtualBox

Kurbli — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:07:22 GMT

innotek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "innotek" for more about our company.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox

ReactOS 0.3.1 Released

Kurbli — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:08:30 GMT

A virtuális ügyek kipróbálására fogom használni.

fireballrus writes with news of the release of ReactOS 0.3.1 — press release, changelog, download packages. ReactOS is "an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003)." The press release notes: "Please don't forget this is an alpha-stage operating system, which means it is not suitable to replace your main OS. Also, this release is aimed to be run mostly in virtualizers / emulators (like QEmu, VMWare, Parallels, etc): because of the big amount of changes, our development team was not able to test/fix all problems which arise when running ReactOS on real hardware."

Source: ReactOS 0.3.1 Released

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SAN and NAS virtualization

Kurbli — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:08:22 GMT

After some years of false starts and false hopes, storage virtualization, also known as block virtualization, is finally proving its worth. All the major vendors have embraced it, most notably IBM, EMC, and HDS (Hitachi Data Systems); the solutions themselves have improved; and customers, typically large shops managing large SANs with intense data availability requirements, understand how to deploy it and where to get good ROI. No longer a technology in search of a problem, storage virtualization offers a way to address a wide range of storage management woes.

Source: SAN and NAS virtualization

Novell offers faster virtualized Windows

Kurbli — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:49:17 GMT

No, mindenkinek kezébe került az IBM kb 30 évvel ezelőtti dokumentációja a mainframe-ek op.rendszereinek működéséről. Lassan keresztbe-kasul virtualizálunk eltérő platformokat (mint egy "rendes" hippy communában), a lényeg azonban, hogy egy op.rendszer alapvető része a virtualizálás (bármely alkalmazás virtuális gépként, sajátos környezetben működik) mintha elveszne.

Novell and Intel develop software that speeds Xen's ability to run Windows as a virtual machine.

Source: Novell offers faster virtualized Windows

IBM announces sHype

Kurbli — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:20:59 GMT

Vesd össze:
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Friday, February 09, 2007 12:00 PM PST
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128888-c,vistalonghorn/article.html elképzeléseivel az IBM announcement-et. A vágy és a tett esete.

"We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."

"It's too early for me to talk about it," he added. "But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."

Quoting from the IBM official announcement:

The IBM secure hypervisor architecture, or "sHype," is a Research technology designed to run in conjunction with commercial and open source hypervisors that control servers and data in a shared environment. sHype aims to provide a security "wrapper" around distributed workloads in the data center, extending mainframe-like security to pooled data and resources across multiple IBM and non-IBM systems.
sHype is designed to bring stronger security guarantees to popular x86 and blade servers. As is increasingly common, IBM Research developed the sHype technology not just in its own labs, but implementing early versions of sHype with customers to test and evaluate the code. Additionally, portions of sHype have been contributed to the Open Source community and are being used, for example, as part of the open source Xen hypervisor kernel.
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sHype works in conjunction with hypervisors by establishing a virtual machine to act as a data center "security foreman." The foreman uses preset configurations, business policies and exceptions set by the customer to lock down all content of the data center. It then automatically sets policies that evaluate, rank and code workloads as well as the physical and virtual resources needed to run each workload. Once workloads and resources are locked together, the integrity of the data and resources is assured and can be better managed by hypervisors accordingly...

Source: IBM announces sHype

Citrix Systems » Citrix Desktop Server

Kurbli — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:21:25 GMT

De kipróbálnám...

Citrix Desktop Server enables IT managers to create dynamic desktops – virtual desktops with all the functionality of traditional PC desktops.

Source: Citrix Systems » Citrix Desktop Server

Interview: virtualization.info interviews IBM

Kurbli — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:05:04 GMT

Lényeges infok, újdonságok, test drive-ok, stb.

IBM pioneered virtualization 40 years ago with mainframes. Since that time the technology has been ported to x86 market, mainly thanks to the effort of VMware.
Now that virtual machines are revolutioning the whole IT industry, IBM is demonstrating its experience putting huge efforts in hypervisors (Virtualization Engine and Xen), management tools (Virtualization Manager and Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager), desktop solutions (Virtualized Hosted Client Infrastructure), and benchmarking (vConsolidate) development.
virtualization.info met Rob Sauerwalt, Global Brand Manager for IBM System x, to discuss about current company involvement in virtualization and his point of view about raising market trends like virtual appliances and application virtualization in an exclusive interview.
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Source: Interview: virtualization.info interviews IBM

Windows is coming to the Mac - and Mac to PCs - Jan. 22, 2007

Kurbli — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:42:17 GMT

Oszt' keresztbe-kasul virtualizálhatunk.

SWsoft's Beloussov says that this spring, Parallels will upgrade its software further, in a way that by coincidence will make it easier to run Mac OS on a non-Apple computer. He also insists that is not deliberate, but just a consequence of the nature of the technology, especially now that Intel (Charts) builds virtualization technology into its chips.

Source: Windows is coming to the Mac - and Mac to PCs - Jan. 22, 2007

virtualization.info: Russian entrepreneur controls a dormant virtualization giant

Kurbli — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:34:48 GMT

Hümm. Látod, Gaba?

What Acronis, Parallels and SWsoft have in common?
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But this is not the only thing they have in common: while at the moment all firms are separated entities, are all financed by the S&W Group, an holding founded by Serguei Beloussov.

Source: virtualization.info: Russian entrepreneur controls a dormant virtualization giant

KVM To Be Merged Into Linux Kernel 2.6.20

Kurbli — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:35:00 GMT

Lepi, így legyen igazad! (nem találom a cikked, ahol írtál a virtuális világról)

KVM, the kernel-based virtual machine for Linux, will be merged into the Linux kernel , according to Andrew Morton's merge plans for 2.6.20. Besides VMware, Xen, qemu, etc., Linux users now have a full virtualization solution built in the kernel which supports running unmodified Linux or Windows images.

Source: KVM To Be Merged Into Linux Kernel 2.6.20

Update: Megvan: "...nem árt tudni: néhány év múlva minden szervert virtualizálni fogunk." http://lepenyet.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8A601C211789FCC8!1232.entry

KB 897614 Updated - Virtual Server Support

Kurbli — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:35:29 GMT

KB 897614 , Windows Server System software not supported within a Microsoft Virtual Server environment, was updated on November 30. The line that interested me the most was: ISA Server 2006 is currently supported running within Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.

Source: KB 897614 Updated - Virtual Server Support

HIS 2006 and BizTalk 2006 Adapters for Host Systems is available

Kurbli — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 08:32:42 GMT

No, ezekre a termékekre kellene egy alkalmas VHD. Egy csomó dolgot ugyanis nincs lehetőség kipróbálni, hiszen elképzelhetetlen egy enterprise szintű teszt rendszer. Egy jó ideje beta tesztelője vagyok e terméknek, de még soha nem sikerült teljes szépségében (funkcionalitásában) tesztelnem. Marad a tapasztalat, vagyis, ha az ügyfélnek valami olyasmi kell, amit az új HIS verzió állítólag tud, akkor ki kell próbálni az éles rendszerén. Mit mondjak, nem egy életbiztosítás. Mielőtt főbe lőnek, előtte még jól meg is vernek. Ezt meg nem szeretem.

... I'm very happy to say that we released HIS 2006 to manufacturing just over a week ago and you can download the evaluation version right now from the Microsoft download site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E4A40127-D73C-4D41-B8B4-FBBE68EEC47E&displaylang=en
If you're using BizTalk and want to use the new BizTalk 2006 Adapters for Host Systems, then this is the link for you:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C0D4B943-1786-4B74-A9A4-FDAA582F5FA2&displaylang=en
I believe it will be another week or two before we update the main HIS web page with all of the information about the new release, but I wanted to get the links out there as soon as possible.
If you run into any problems at all with HIS 2006 or have any questions please let me know. I'll be sure and post any common or interesting questions I get as blog entries.

Source: HIS 2006 is available!!!

CP: The Truth About Visual Studio Support on Windows Vista

Kurbli — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:07:06 GMT

Found on LonghornBlogs this interesting post from Robert Law...

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I was briefed earlier today on Visual Studio support on Windows Vista, and I wanted to clear the air... because there seems to be some confusion.

Visual Studio 6.0 - Supported on Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2002 - Not supported on Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2003 - Not supported on Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2005 SP1- Supported on Windows Vista, currently has UAC-related compatibility issues that may get in your way. This issues will be fixed after Vista RTMs. (I suspect if you shut UAC off you won't have these issues... but of course I don;t recommend that)

What does this mean for developers? Well, it's important to remember that the .NET 1.1 runtime will still be compatible with Vista, so your apps themselves will continue to run fine. But for the tools, it would take a lot of work to bring those apps up to speed, and Microsoft has to make hard choices on how it allocates its resources.

If you're in a large organization, and you still have to support .NET 1.1 code, chances are pretty good you're on Software Assurance, and you'll have a copy of Windows Vista Enterprise. Time to utilize one of your 4 VPC image license and fire up your development environment in Virtual PC. If you're not in a large organization, Virtual PC / Virtual Server is still free. Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 (say that 5x fast) has a new utility called VHDMount that lets you mount a VHD as a physical hard drive on the host. You can store all of your source code in a separate VHD and access it from both the host and the guest.

UPDATE: Don't forget about MSBee, which lets you compile to .NET 1.1 on VS2005.

The other solution is to migrate most of the organization to Vista and keep the developers on XP/2003. You can still develop for .NET 3.0 on those platforms, so most apps shouldn't have a problem (unless you're hooking into something like dwmapi.dll)

Anyways, is Microsoft trying to purpously force people to upgrade to .NET 2.0/3.0? Absolutely not. But you have to ask youself a question: Would rather Visual Studio "Orcas" be delayed until the end of 2007 to get 2003 running on Vista? I know my answer is "hell no", and yours probably is too.

It's a bad deal, but in the end, it's the right call to keep other products on track. I wish Microsoft baked VPC into Vista like virtualization was built into OSX for OS9 compatibility... but I'm just a crazy man.

}

http://blogs.msdn.com/vincex.net/archive/2006/09/28/Vista.aspx

Mit lehet ehhez hozzátenni?

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CP: NetXen virtualises server networking

Kurbli — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:23:00 GMT

NetXen claims to be able to virtualise a network interface within the network card itself, rather that relying on a hypervisor.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/idg/uk/Techworldcom/~3/23568327/index.cfm

CP: Virtual databases: An alternative solution

Kurbli — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:53:24 GMT

Server virtualization is an efficient way to save on server hardware costs, real estate, and management resources, but it isn’t the only way. Just ask the folks at Avanade, a systems integrator specialising in Microsoft solutions. For one government customer, Avanade had originally designed hundreds of SQL Servers in highly available MSCS (Microsoft Cluster Server) clusters, but the system was spiraling out of control.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/idg/uk/Techworldcom/~3/21768646/index.cfm

Lepenye Tamás előadásai

Kurbli — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:11:00 GMT

Lepi a múlt héten tartott az Inetpub tagoknak előadást és éles rendszeren bemutatót a clusterekről. Egy bosszantó software hiba miatt - Lepi szerint "Úgy látom, hogy a szoftver kissé bugos." - kevésbé finom lélek - pl. én - a Gödöllei féle nagyszótárból, vagy a Magyar Tengerész Káromkodások c. kiadványokból ordítottam volna idézeteket.

Lepi 3 elődásának ppt formátumú vázlatai a http://www.box.net/public/0ykdcma1vb#main helyen láthatóak.

Mindenki sajnálhatja, hogy nincs hang. Mi - jelenlévők - előadását lenyűgözve hallgattuk. Köztudott belepofázásunkat és vitázó hajlamunkat nem a mikrofon jelenléte, hanem az előadás magas színvonala tartotta kordában.

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Windows Vista the last of its kind

Kurbli — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:26:18 GMT

Matthew Broersma, Techworld 25 August 2006:

Gartner predicts move toward modular OS.

Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current, monolithic form, according to Gartner.

A cikkből továbbá:

Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and David Mitchell Smith.

The problem is that the operating system's increasing complexity is making it ever more difficult for enterprises to implement migrations, and impossible for Microsoft to release regular updates. This, in turn, stands in the way of Microsoft's efforts to push companies to subscription licensing.
The answer, according to Gartner, is virtualisation, which is built into newer chips from Intel and AMD, and has become mainstream for x86 servers through the efforts of VMware. "Once Windows includes virtualisation at its core, we expect OS development to change direction from integration to modularisation," the analysts wrote.

Kiemeltem a fontosnak tartott részeket.

Örülök, hogy mások is úgy tartják (nem csak én a többi pihent emberrel együtt), hogy a moduláris rendszerek fejlesztése a cél, mert ily módon lehet a folyamatosan változó számítási igényeket, üzemeltetési követelményeket kielégíteni.

Továbbá ekkor jöhet el a szép új világ a server alapú grid computing, hogy Lepenye Tamás költői kérdése választ kaphasson.