Re: Ubuntu promises DIY Amazon cloud

[Ahmed Kamal]

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(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt;
> 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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