http://simonwillison.net/2009-03-24T14:31:25+00:00Simon Willison2009-03-24T14:31:25+00:002009-03-24T14:31:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/24/development/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://intranation.com/entries/2009/03/development-virtual-machines-os-x-using-vmware-and/">Development virtual machines on OS X using VMWare and Ubuntu</a></strong></p> Bradley Wright provides detailed instructions for getting the JeOS (VM optimised) flavour of Ubuntu running with VMWare tools so you don’t need to run samba just to share your desktop. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bradley-wright">bradley-wright</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jeos">jeos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ubuntu">ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vmware">vmware</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vmwarefusion">vmwarefusion</a></p>

2008-04-08T07:25:35+00:002008-04-08T07:25:35+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Apr/8/google/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google App Engine</a></strong></p> Write applications in Python using a WSGI compatible application framework, then host them on Google’s highly scalable infrastructure. The most exciting part is probably the Datastore API, which provides external developers with access to Bigtable for the first time. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/bigtable">bigtable</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google-app-engine">google-app-engine</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/scaling">scaling</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wsgi">wsgi</a></p>

2007-12-10T15:27:54+00:002007-12-10T15:27:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/10/yarivus/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2007/12/09/erlyweb-vs-ruby-on-rails-ec2-performance-showdown/">ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown</a></strong></p> ErlyWeb’s peak response rate beats Rails by 47x, albeit with a hugely simplified benchmark. More interesting than the results is the idea of using EC2 for benchmarking on identical simulated hardware. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/benchmarks">benchmarks</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ec2">ec2</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlang">erlang</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/erlyweb">erlyweb</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/performance">performance</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails">rails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yarivsadan">yarivsadan</a></p>

2007-11-18T00:30:18+00:002007-11-18T00:30:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/18/proprietary/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/11/proprietary-software-does-not-scale.html">Proprietary Software Does Not Scale</a></strong></p> I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/licensing">licensing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proprietary">proprietary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a></p>

2007-11-18T00:22:50+00:002007-11-18T00:22:50+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/18/ubuntu/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-November/000106.html">Ubuntu JeOS 7.10 released</a></strong></p> JeOS = “Just enough Operating System”—a minimal Ubuntu image designed for creating “virtual applications” that are embedded in a VMWare (or similar) virtual machine. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jeos">jeos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/linux">linux</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ubuntu">ubuntu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vmware">vmware</a></p>

2007-10-29T09:56:39+00:002007-10-29T09:56:39+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/29/timemachine/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/14">How Time Machine works</a></strong></p> From John Siracusa’s Leopard review. The bad news is that Time Machine doesn’t deal well with huge files that have small changes made to them... such as Parallels VM images. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/apple">apple</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/arstechnica">arstechnica</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/john-siracusa">john-siracusa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/leopard">leopard</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/parallels">parallels</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/timemachine">timemachine</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a></p>

2007-10-24T22:19:24+00:002007-10-24T22:19:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/24/virtual/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://vmcreator.com/virtual-machine.html">Virtual Machine Creator</a></strong></p> Web based tool for creating blank VMware compatible virtual machine images; uses QEMU under the hood. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://programming.reddit.com/info/5z0g9/comments/">programming.reddit.com</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/qemu">qemu</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualmachines">virtualmachines</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vmware">vmware</a></p>

2007-08-30T21:51:20+00:002007-08-30T21:51:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Aug/30/ganeti/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/">Ganeti</a></strong></p> New from Google (developed in the Zurich office): virtual server management tool designed to “facilitate cluster management”, built on top of Xen. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/08/ganeti-open-source-virtual-server.html">Google Code Updates</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ganeti">ganeti</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xen">xen</a></p>