The English Admin Magazine (published in the UK, US and AU) #7 now contains a translated version of Thilo’s, Markus’ and my article about KVM clustering and monitoring the VMs with Opsview. You can view the magazine here: http://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/magazines/admin-magazine/eh33007.html http://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2012/07 Make sure to check it out if you haven’t read much about that topic yet!

Today I have an exciting announcement to make: At this day, the German Linux Magazine 2011/12 arrives at your local (German) magazin store. It contains a title article about monitoring a KVM standalone/cluster. It war written by Thilo, Markus and me. You can read the free preview here: “Pulsmesser – Opsview-Monitoring eines KVM-Servers im Clusterbetrieb” [...]

From time to time there is a point where you encounter very annoying things in open source software or while using non-free tools. One of them was qemu. As some of you might be aware of, I am a huge fan of Xen. I love the idea of using paravirtualization for almost native performance of [...]