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VirtualBox 3.1 was released today. Teleportation (other systems call this live migration) is the most important feature for sure, but there were several other interesting changes as described by the log. Binaries are available at the usual location.

There is a good reason, why there is no Container part in my LKSF series: Don't repeat something that is already excellent. Detlef Drewanz and Uli Gräf wrote with the help of many colleague an excellent guide to the "Container Leitfaden". This document is a great paper about Solaris Zones and adjacent topics. Today the both released the version 3.1. It's available in german and english language. Great work, Detlef and Uli!

Someone out there with a need for a Google Wave invite?

Update: No invites left ...

Just in case you've wondered about the relative silence at this blog this weekend: I started to re-implement the code behind codenews and the patchnews framework to a single one. It ended with implementing a more generic framework that triggers asynchronous jobs when something changes in the blog or other sources of information deliver new content. I think it will take some weekends but it's a good training in Python.

PS: Perhaps i will use it to build a static-file version of this blog.

Looks like the people in the Virtualbox development got really on speed at ironing out beta bug in Virtualbox 3.1. You can find the announcement for the third beta at the usual location.

Today i had a really interesting meeting with a customer in Hamburg. In the discussion about the further development of Opensolaris i've pointed to the codenews twitterfeed and got the question "No RSS feed?". Well, there wasn't really one (to be exact, you could use the rss feed of twitter, but this one is not extensible). I changed that this evening. Now you can subscribe to the information about code putbacks to the Opensolaris codebase by subscribing to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Codenews. It's the first version, so suggestions and ideas are really welcome. Full integration of the annotated putback mail in the description is already planed. At the moment there is just a link.

My system, one openssl speed:

There is no scaling in this example ... just included it to show you "green=load". 4 cores? Boooooring

A screenshot of perfbar made by colleagues while running an ERP benchmark:


You can click on the image to get a larger picture. Yes ... there are 512 performance bars in this window You can even distinguish the psrsets on this image. Neat ... that's a real system For more information just visit Stefan Schneiders blog entry about this perfbar screenshot.

This blog entry is for the people who can't wait until Build 129 of SXCE or the the OpenSolaris Build 128 next week to get the fingers onto ZFS deduplication. Please don't use it on your production SXCE or on your workstation. I've used a cloned snapshot of my SXCE snv_127 installation. It's just for the people that really can't wait!

# cat /etc/release 
                  Solaris Express Community Edition snv_127 X86
           Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 05 November 2009

This tutorial will guide you to the needed steps in order to BFU your installation to snv_128. I will not give you many explanations, as you should be reasonable fluent in what you do when you attempt to try this stuff.

There was one application that was really missing on Solaris x86, Oracle 11g ... but that has changed now: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.1.0) is available for download.