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Virtualization Options

For personal or business infrastructure:

- VMware vSphere, VMware Server, VMware Player , VMware ESXi
- VirtualBox, VirtualBox Web Console
- Xen , Xen Live CD
- Qemu
- KVM
- Virtual PC
- Hyper-V
- Citrix
- Oracle VM
- Parallels

Others:
- Bochs
- Dosbox Run old DOS App or Games

Cloud computing Virtualization:

- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
- ElasticHosts

useful options to separate processes and information:

Linux use Chroot
OpenSolaris use Zones
FreeBSD use Jails
NetBSD and OpenBSD use Sysjails

Maybe there are many other options to virtualization.

FreeBSD issue with 40-pin IDE

Trying to install FreeBSD on a P4, using the sysinstall not make formatting the disk or partition. boot in Safe Mode, now sysinstall works, and you can install FreeBSD without any problems

Booting using default and acpi off:

ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN
ad1: WARNING READ_DMA UDMA ICRC ERROR (retyring request) LBA=NNN

The system show this promt:

mountroot>

Booting in Safe Mode:

FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0)

login:

Works but i don’t want to always boot in Safe Mode.

So searching in Google the answer, after a while searching, I going to IRC, one user told me that the problem was the 40-pin IDE cable, use one 80-pin:

Change the IDE cable from 40 to 80.

FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0)

login:

by the way: It is the first time I install FreeBSD

OpenSolaris 2009.06 on Toshiba Satellite u205

I have a little time using Debian Squeeze on my Notebook today i decide to test OpenSolaris 2009.06

- Wireless Works Fine
- Some buttons no work (browser/music/play/stop/prev/next)
- To lisen mp3 files, I need to register on fluendo.
- To enable Flash on Firefox only download from adobe and move libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

Screens:

Now I need to read [ http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/getstart/ ]

The Barrelfish Operating System

What is Barrelfish OS ?

Barrelfish is a new research operating system being built from scratch in a collaboration between ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research, Cambridge. We are exploring how to structure an OS for future multi- and many-core systems. We are motivated by two closely related trends in hardware design: first, the rapidly growing number of cores, which leads to a scalability challenge, and second, the increasing diversity in computer hardware, requiring the OS to manage and exploit heterogeneous hardware resources.

Download [ http://www.barrelfish.org/release_20090914.html ]

Extract for the README file:

REQUIRED TOOLS

The following are required to build Barrelfish and its tools:
* GCC 4 (4.3.3 and 4.3.4 are known to work; cross-compiling from i386 works)
* GNU binutils (2.19 is known to work)
* CMake v2.6
* GNU make
* GHC v6.8.2 and Parsec 2.1 (earlier versions may work but are untested)
* pdflatex (unfortunately CMake fails if this is not present, even when
not building the documentation)

Our build system may not be very portable; if in doubt, try building on a
recent Debian or Ubuntu system, as these are what we use.

WebSite [ http://www.barrelfish.org ]

Sometimes you need create a custom Windows Installation CD, or need a downgrade (Vista => XP), but the normal WinXP Installation CD doesn’t have the drivers for sata controller, a good solution is nLite

nLite can create a custon Installation CD:

• Windows 2000 (Professional, Server, Advanced Server)
• Windows XP (Professional, Home, MCE, N, x64 Professional)
• Windows Server 2003 (standard, Web, Enterprise x64, R2)

Download nLite on http://www.nliteos.com/

Windows Vista need vLite on http://www.vlite.net/