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Eucalyptus 2.0 Is Now Available!
Posted: Tuesday 24th of August 2010 11:36:45 PM
We are pleased to announce the release of Eucalyptus 2.0! Now available for immediate download, this latest version of the Eucalyptus open source cloud introduces several new features, including iSCSI support for EBS volumes, S3 versioning, virtio support for KVM hypervisors, and new administrator tools. Now updated to Eucalyptus 2.0, we welcome you to testdrive the new release on our Community Cloud (ECC).
Eucalyptus 2.0 provides packages for an expanded set of Linux distributions: Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, and, for the first time, Fedora. Please see our documentation for comprehensive installation and configuration instructions pertaining to your distribution. Eucalyptus 2.0 is already available to Ubuntu users via official repositories as the core element of the UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud), which is powered by Eucalyptus.
In coordination with the release of Eucalyptus 2.0, we are pleased to announce the availability for immediate download of Euca2ools 1.3, Eucalyptus' EC2-compatible client tools. This new version features extended coverage of the AWS EC2 API, compliance with newer dependency packages, Windows support, and numerous small improvements.
More...Eucalyptus gets squeezed
Posted: Thursday 12th of August 2010 12:06:36 PM
As of August 6th, Debian squeeze has been frozen with Eucalyptus on board! Eucalyptus 1.6.2 has been available in Debian's sid archive since May 2010. sid is Debian's unstable archive, where packages are available prior to being promoted to Debian's testing archive. The current testing archive, named squeeze, is destined to become the next official stable release of Debian (version 6.0). Now frozen, no new features can be added to the contents of the squeeze archive, and the focus is now on polishing, bug fixes, and documentation. We at Eucalyptus are pleased to be part of the next stable Debian release.
Read more at http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100806
More...virtio support in Eucalyptus 2.0
Posted: Thursday 5th of August 2010 06:18:37 PM
Beginning with version 2.0, Eucalyptus will support KVM virtio as a configuration option. Virtio is a framework that brings paravirtualized device drivers to KVM similar to Xen's architecture. Paravirtualization should enhance I/O performance in comparison to a fully virtualized environment and help simplify the interaction between guest and hypervisor. Using virtio requires you to reconfigure your images to interact with the new drivers. For example, you will need to rename the root file system of the guest machine to /dev/vda1, instead of the current EC2 and Eucalyptus default device name /dev/sda1. Please note that reconfiguring images for use with virtio makes them unsuitable for direct transfer between a virtio environment (such as Eucalyptus configured for virtio) and a non-virtio environment (such as EC2).
Read more about KVM virtio: http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio
Read more about Xen paravirtualized devices: http://staging.xen.org/about/paravirtualization.html
Read about paravirtualization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paravirtualization
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