It took a few contacts and some help from friends (I love you Shari), but IBM found an internship opportunity for me in India. Details and logistics have yet to be determined, but I will be spending my next summer exploring Bangalore - the Silicon Valley of India. Many things are up in the air and I have a lot of planning to do.
I played around a lot with the layout and style of the site. I did a lot of integration work with Gallery2 and wordpress. The result speaks for itself. The site will be slow today due to the upgrades.
Microsoft announced on Monday that they will work with XenSource to develop interoperability for Windows Server “Longhorn” Virtualization.
But why would Microsoft be interested in Xen and what does this mean for the virtualization market?
VMWare is currently the proven leader by leaps and bounds, but has designed a virtualized environment that uses technology known as “native virtualization“. While native virtualization allows for easy support of any operating system, it loses in a performance comparison to “paravirtualization“, which is the technology implemented by Xen.
It is a smart move on Microsoft’s part to collaborate with XenSource in their development of Microsoft Virtual Server because they can leverage Xen’s Linux performance advantages while being hosted on a Windows server. This will allow former Xen users to easily migrate their virtualized Linux servers to a Windows based solution. Unfortunately for the Linux camp, it looks like Microsoft will not be returning the favor by helping to improve Windows running under Xen (which is possible, if you have the right hardware).
Inspired by reading this hackaday article, I walked across the street and purchased a lock for $4 and had a crack at it. I think it took me about 12 minutes to find the winning combination. Scary, but fun!
The “Master Unlocked” tutorial was a bit more robust and is the one I’d recommend if you’re having problems.
Looks like our little IBM Extreme Blue project is helping to make some big waves 
IBM To Support Xen Virtualization Software For Suse 10 Linux
We’re currently the top story on digg.com! This is too cool.
While I still can’t say exactly what our project does, IBM has now gone public in their support for Xen Virtualization Server on select versions of their blades. In addition, they will allow, “IBM customers to use familiar IBM management software to provision and manage multiple Xen virtual machines.”