Posts Tagged ‘VM’
Further thoughts on TornadoVM
TornadoVM was definitely the coolest thing I learned about at QCon London last week, which is why I wrote up the presentation on InfoQ. It seems that people on the Orange web site are also interested in the intersection of Java, GPUs and FPGA, as the piece was #1 there last night as I went […]
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Tags: compiler, FPGA, Go, golang, GPU, java, JIT, TornadoVM, VM
How long to provision a VM?
This question came from a colleague, and it’s one of those questions that I’m surprised and saddened that we still have to ask. My history with this stuff Some 15 years ago I was a beta tester for Leslie Muller‘s ‘Virtual Developer Environment’ (VDE)[1], which was a web site that let me request a virtual […]
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Tags: approval, cloud, DHCP, iaas, IPAM, provisioning, spend control, VM
T-Shirt Sizes and the Copycloud
TL;DR T-Shirt sizes are frequently used to create the VM types and cost structure for private clouds, but if the sizing isn’t informed by data this can lead to stranded resources and inefficient capacity management. It’s the antitheses of dynamic capacity management where every VM is sized according to the resources it actually consumes, ensuring […]
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Tags: capacity, sizing, T-shirt, VM
Home Lab/Network
Background Jess Frazelle has recently been blogging about her Home Lab, which made me realise that over the years I’ve written here about pieces of my own lab, but never the entirety. Network Wired networks are better for bandwidth, reliability and latency, so I use wired whenever I can. Taking a queue from Ian Miell’s […]
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Tags: home, lab, Microserver, network, VM, VMware
Do VMs dream of real networks?
With apologies to Philip K. Dick. This post is going to address three topics: The relationship between a virtual machine (VM) and its network connection(s). The changing perimeter The role of APIs in controlling network configuration The common theme is dreams, or perhaps de/re(ams) – as the last two topics touch on whether something is de- or […]
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Tags: cloud, define, defined, deperimiterisation, deperimiterization, networking, perimeter, refine, refined, reperimiterisation, reperimiterization, SDN, software, virtualisation, virtualise, virtualization, virtualize, VLAN, VM, VMs
STM32 dev the easy way
A while ago I bought an STM32 dev board from China on eBay, as it seemed to have so much more than the official Discovery boards coming with: A 2.4″ LCD with touch screen input 4 Pushbuttons (and a Reset button) 4 LEDs 2 Variable resistors A Micro SD slot A buzzer RS232 2 USB […]
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Tags: ebay, LCD, STM32, touch screen, VirtualBox, VM
Moving house
For a few months now I’ve been offering OpenELEC release bundles and SD card images at openelec.thestateofme.com, and more recently I set up resources.pichimney.com to host a broader range of Raspberry Pi related downloads. The servers that I’ve been using were part of the BigV.io beta, so I’ve not been picking up the tab for […]
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Tags: bandwidth, BigV, build, device, hosting, image, loop, openelec, OpenVZ, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, rsync, SD, VM, VPS
Interruption in service
The build box that I use to make OpenELEC for the Raspberry Pi and its associated web server with release bundles and image files has been down for most of the last day. Normal service is now resumed, so if you’re still having issues seeing openelec.thestateofme.com it’s likely to be due to DNS propagation delays. When […]
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Tags: BigV, BigV.io, download, downtime, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, VM
The 90 day free trial of Azure that I started so that I could describe how to build OpenELEC in the cloud is coming to a close. As I sit here once again waiting for my machine to reboot I don’t think I’ll miss it much when it’s gone. I’ve already written about my issues […]
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Tags: Azure, cloud, iaas, Microsoft, read only, reboot, slow, stability, Ubuntu, unstable, update, upgrade, uptime, VM, VPS
Recovering my Azure VM
A few weeks back I wrote a howto that utilised the 90 day free trial on Azure to build OpenELEC for the Raspberry Pi. Days later my account was disabled as I’d exhausted the (rather low) limit for I/O within the trial. Since I’d only used 5-6p of extra stuff I went through the process […]
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Tags: Azure, disk, DNS, Microsoft, MS, name, reattach, recover, recovery, VM
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