[plug] Re: [plug-announce] *** PLUG November Seminar - A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS and OpenArena ***

[Daniel Pearson]

Don't forget to update the website :D (it currently shows the September 
details)

Patrick Coleman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Another seminar, with the notification out >1 day before the date this
> time! Thanks to Adrian for filling in at the last minute.
>
> Title: "A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO,
> FreeNAS and OpenArena"
> When: Tuesday, 13th November 2008, 7:30pm - 9:00pm.
> Where: 'Futuresphere', Christ Church Grammar School, Queenslea Drive, Claremont
> Presenter: Adrian Woodley
>
> "A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS
> and OpenArena"
>
> (Or "What Adrian's been playing with this week")
>
> As most of you will be aware, Intrepid Ibex, the newest update to
> Ubuntu, was released last week. Overall there are only minor
> improvements on Hardy Heron, Intrepid does come with some new versions
> of some interesting systems.
>
> One of these in particular is Virt-Manager. Virt-Manager is a GUI
> front end for several hypervisors. Currently it supports Xen, QEMU and
> KVM. While possibly not suitable for large scale or server
> environments, Virt-Manager does make playing with virtual machines
> incredibly easy. I'll be focusing on using Virt-Manager with KVM and
> VirtIO.
>
> Having the flexibility of a virtual environment to play in has allowed
> me to try out a heap of software, systems and distributions which
> otherwise would have been painful and time consuming. I intend to
> demonstrate a couple that I've come across in the past week, including
> FreeNAS and Nexenta.
>
> On an entirely different tack, I've been having a play with some games
> which are packaged and available in Ubuntu, namely Open Arena, Alien
> Arena and Tremulous. If all goes well, we should be able to have a
> play of these on the big-screen.
>
> Lastly, I'd like to hold a bit of a discussion on an idea I've been
> thinking about lately; Distributed Network Monitoring. I'll elaborate
> more on my idea during the presentation and will be looking for some
> feed back on its usefulness and viability.
>
> (It should be noted that I haven't actually prepared any of this, so
> don't expect slides or any in-depth knowledge on any of the above
> topics! Patrick only approached me on tuesday to fill in.)
>
> Adrian is a Systems Engineer at iiNet. At iiNet he deals with the
> email network, ADSL network and security. Adrian currently holds the
> title of "Most prolific PLUG presenter", having previously presented
> "All the wonders of LDAP revealed!!! (Eggs and all major vegetables
> accepted.)", "Samba Networking", "Everything you ever wanted to know
> about VoIP, SIP and Asterisk, but didn't know who to phone", "Virtual
> Email Hosting" and "Network Monitoring".
>
> We will be ordering pizza for consumption when the talk is over, and
> possibly adjourning to a nearby pub for general discussion and drinks
> after the presentation. A gold-coin donation is requested to cover the
> costs of the pizza.
>
> As usual, visitors and friends are most welcome.
>
> Information (including a map to the venue) is also available on the
> PLUG website: http://www.plug.org.au/events/seminar/.
>
> See you there!
>
> -Patrick
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