03 Nov 2014
Last Saturday a few of us gathered to work on Fedora Security. This FAD (Fedora Activity Day) was the second in recent times held in Pune, after the testing FAD held in August. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Security FAD[/caption] The goal of the FAD was to get introduced to the...
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03 Nov 2014
It's been a couple of weeks that I've returned from Düsseldorf, Germany, after attending the seventh KVM Forum; an event where developers and users of the Linux virtualization technology gather to discuss the state of the hypervisor and tools around it, and brainstorm on future plans. As with the previous...
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09 Oct 2014
The 2014 edition of KVM Forum is less than a week away. The schedule of the talks is available at this location. Use this link to add the schedule to your calendar. A few slides have already been uploaded for some of the talks. As with last year, we'll live-stream...
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05 Oct 2014
I participated in the OpenStack Meetup at the Red Hat Pune office a few weekends ago. I have been too caught up on the lower-level KVM/QEMU layers of the virt stack, and know there aren't too many people involved in those layers in Pune (or even India); and was curious...
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29 Sep 2014
The KVM Forums are a great way to learn and talk about the future of KVM virtualization. The KVM Forum has been co-located with the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon events for the past several years, and this year too will be held along with LinuxCon EU in Dusseldorf, Germany. The KVM...
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29 Sep 2014
For a long time various people have been telling me there's not much information on the low-level / plumbing details of the virt stack on Linux. Especially information related to qemu and its various settings, devices, and so on. Documentation surely is difficult to come by, but a quick and...
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24 Aug 2014
I participated in the Fedora Activity Day at the RH office in Pune yesterday. There was a decent turnout, 20+ people, and it was fun to test the in-progress version of the upcoming F21 release along with other folks. Siddhesh came up with the idea of rebooting Fedora-related activities in...
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31 Jan 2014
I run Piwik on OpenShift to collect stats on visits to this blog. I'm not really interested in knowing who visits my site. I'm only interested in knowing what people are visiting for, and how: which pages are more viewed? where are people landing to my site from? how long...
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15 Jan 2014
Experimenting with the new cyanogenmod builds for Android 4.3 (cm-10.2) resulted in a disaster: my phone was setup for encryption, and the updater messed up the usb storage such that the phone wouldn't recognise the in-built sdcard on the Nexus S anymore. I tried several things: factory reset, formatting via...
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12 May 2013
A few weeks back, a strange bird call started waking me up. Though red-whiskered bulbuls are supposed to be pretty common, I'd not heard them or seen one up close. There were two of them making rounds throughout the day, and they used to visit one plant in my terrace-garden...
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