[Gloucs] October GlosLUG meeting

Glyn Davies glynd at walmore.com
Sun Oct 19 22:03:49 UTC 2008


The next GlosLUG meeting will be on Tuesday October 21st at Message 
Labs, Gloucester.

This month, Richard Jones from RedHat will be talkin on some or all of the following:

1. libvirt (http://libvirt.org/), the virtualization API

2. virtualization & small-scale management tools such as:
     virt-install
     virt-manager
     virt-top
     virt-df
     virt-ps
     virt-clone
     virt-viewer and more

3. oVirt (http://ovirt.org), the scalable graphical management console

4. the future of virtualization in Fedora

5. Xen vs KVM and the Red Hat Qumranet acquisition

6. performance tips for virtualization

7. deeper technical stuff - eg. how paravirtualization is different
   from full virtualization, how virtio drivers work, containers
   versus full system virt, etc.

Usual agenda.

6pm - Free wifi, coffee and chat
7pm - Talks start
9pm - Finish

The venue is:

Seminar Room 1
MessageLabs Centre Of Excellence
Lansdown Court, Gloucester Business Park
Gloucester GL3 4AB

Map [PDF]: http://tinyurl.com/zt7h5

This is about 10 minutes walk from the very new and very large 
out-of-town Tescos in Brockworth. Stagecoach bus route number 10.

-- 
Best Regards
Glyn Davies




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