Category: Software

VMSocket: a mechanism to expose UNIX Sockets in KVM Virtual Machines

VMSocket is a mechanism to expose UNIX Sockets (sockets in AF_UNIX domain) from the host operating system to the KVM's virtual machines. It provides a really fast communication channel between host and guests os. It can ben used for communication that needs to be fast, such as HPC (High Performance Computing) software solutions and so … Continue reading VMSocket: a mechanism to expose UNIX Sockets in KVM Virtual Machines →

Netinstalling CentOS using Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet (aka HOWTO modify Red Hat based iso's bootkernel)

I needed to install CentOS 5.3 on a workstation with an "Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter", the driver for this kind of adapter (atl1e) was introduced in the version 2.6.26 of the kernel but CentOS 5.3 uses the 2.6.18 one. ElRepo provides an rpm with the atl1e.ko module backported for using with the … Continue reading Netinstalling CentOS using Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet (aka HOWTO modify Red Hat based iso's bootkernel) →

Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli

When and Where Thursday, June 18 11:30 am onwards Location: University of Naples "Parthenope" - Faculty of Science and Technlogies, Centro Direzionale di Napoli Isola C4 Responsible Ambassadors Giuseppe Coviello Attendees Gianluca Varisco ... add yourself here! ... Program 11.30: "Welcomes to the conference" by Prof. Giulio Giunta 11.50: "Fedora 11, New Features" by Gianluca … Continue reading Fedora 11 Release Party Napoli →

CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4

It’s time for a new (and we hope the last one) release candidate for CRUX PPC 2.5. This release candidate implements all the changes introduced in CRUX PPC Release Candidate 3. From this release candidate we provide a full support for IBM pSeries machines (since we bought a second hand IBM Intellistation 2-way POWER4+ workstation). … Continue reading CRUX PPC 2.5 Release Candidate 4 →