FISL11 lectures presented, time to enjoy the party

Two lectures, two days, hard work and my nerves eating me alive. Not easy to speak on a such huge event like FISL. A lot of experience acquired but I am not planning to return to stage soon :) But of course, very happy to spread the word of two projects I like so much: Libvirt, which I've been working on for about two years, and DeltaCloud so young and so promissing! Here I post both of presentations. Thanks for all the comunity for the help :-)

And now time for a little fun. Watch some good lectures, get some free coffee and enjoy the cold weather :-)

Libvirt-0.8.2 is out. IBM pHyp driver now supports IVM and storage management

Libvirt-0.8.2 is finally out. New pHyp features are now available :-) I've been working hard for the last couple of weeks to finish all the support for the IVM, IBM Integrated Virtualization Manager. Now the phyp driver is able to manage both HMC/VIOs and IVM virtualized systems. Also, another big feature that is now available is the storage management. The whole stack of storage (pools and volumes) can now be managed with Libvirt.

I couldn't get to this without the help of Eric Blake (from Red Hat), helping reviewing my patches and Brian King (from IBM), helping me understand the whole world of IBM virtualization . Thank you, guys :)

Libvirt now supports IBM Power Hypervisors

Yeah, that's it: Yesterday the my first patch were pushed into the main tree of Libvirt's repo. It will be available in the next version, libvirt-0.7.0[1], scheduled to be released in the end of this month. This lib now has the power[2], to manage IBM Power Hypervisors through HMC/VIOS and IVM :)

Libvirt is a library that creates an abstraction layer by exporting a generic API above a virtualization system. You can create your own virt-manager-like software using libvirt and you'll be able to manage most sorts of virtualization systems. It started to be used only with Xen, but many other drivers were made other different systems: KVM, Openvz, VMWare, VirtualBox and so on.

My job at LTC is to design and implement a driver that could manage both HMC/VIOS and IVM systems. This is the first version, a lot of features are planned to be done. Wait for more news :)

[1] - Also known as "double-o-seven release".

[2] - This joke has no effect in portuguese.