[Bradford] Virtualisation and Practical Sessions

[Bernard Czenkusz]

I'd be interested on coming along to a virtualisation one, I've used
Virtualbox, but I've heard good things about KVM.

With regard to longer practical sessions in general - if there's
interest I could probably do one on Python, I may be able to get someone
else from the West Yorkshire Python user group along as well.

A longer session is better than a talk on a programming language as you
really need to get your hands coding to learn it.

  - Bernie

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 21:43 +0100, Alice Kaerast wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody feel like doing a talk on the various virtualisation
> options, along with some practical demos at the meeting at some point?
> I'm quite well up on Virtualbox and VMWare and I've briefly used qemu,
> but really don't know anything about the other (more open) options and
> would like to learn.
> 
> In particular, I've been trying and failing to get a Debian or Ubuntu
> Xen host working.  I really just want an easy Xen or Vserver or similar
> setup for me to host a couple of virtual machines on one single box.  I
> can just about do it in VMware ESXi on a single box, but it's not open
> and I need a Windows box to manage it.
> 
> Secondly, are people up for some more practical sessions? A few of us
> spent a day doing Cucumber interface testing and Continuous Integration
> using Hudson recently, and I'd really like to do other day-long
> sessions.  I've been thinking of doing a day of Sintra and NoSQL, and
> obviously would like somebody to run a day of Virtualisation
> technologies.  I've got a conference room and some spare equipment in
> Keighley that are always freely available for such sessions.
>