During last few days I was in Kraków, Poland at OpenStack Days conference. It had two (Tuesday) or three (Monday) tracks filled with talks. Of different quality as it happens on such small events. Detailed list of presentations is available
SnowpenStack in Dublin
During last week I was in Dublin, Ireland on OpenStack PTG. It was also the worst weather since 1982. There was snow and strong wind so conference quickly got renamed to SnowpenStack. The main reasons for me to be there
OpenStack ‘Queens’ release done
OpenStack community released ‘queens’ version this week. IMHO it is quite important moment for AArch64 community as well because it works out of the box for us. Gone are things like setting hw_firmware_type=uefi for each image you upload to Glance —
Hotplug in VM. Easy to say…
You run VM instance. Nevermind is it part of OpenStack setup or just local one started using Boxes, virt-manager, virsh or other that kind of fronted to libvirt daemon. And then you want to add some virtual hardware to it.
Graphical console in OpenStack/aarch64
OpenStack users are used to have graphical console available. They take it for granted even. But we lacked it… When we started working on OpenStack on 64-bit ARM there were many things missing. Most of them got sorted out already.
Everyone loves 90s PC hardware?
Do you know what is the most popular PC machine nowadays? It is “simple” PCI based x86(-64) machine with i440fx chipset and some expansion cards. Everyone is using them daily. Often you do not even realise that things you do