Posted by bitbud on November 14, 2008 under Bitbud Blog | 
Welcome to the new bitbud.com I have finally flipped the switch from Joomla to Wordpress, and I have to admit the new Wordpress 2.7 is sweet. This is by far THE platform to use for a Blog. I tried for several months each both Drupal and Joomla. They are good CMS systems, but for blogging, the new Wordpress can’t be beat. This really is making blogging MUCH easier for me.
I found a useful script that handled the importing of all my Joomla ‘articles’. Sadly, none of the comments made it, but I may do that manually later.
There is still more work to do, most importantly handling redirects from the old Joomla links to the new Wordpress permalinks. Also need to import my graphics, find a new template, and get my modules configured.
I’ll update this post with some more details on the script I used for importing later.
Enjoy!
Posted by on November 12, 2008 under Uncategorized |
I have been withholding my posts lately, as I am working on moving over to WordPress (should be done this week). However, this news is too big to wait.
The new version of KVM (KVM-79) was just released, and it includes a feature that is unique to KVM (compared to all other x86 virtualization platforms - in other words, VMWare and Microsoft can’t do this, but I’m sure they’ll add it soon),
PCI device assignment
With this new release, you can now pass an entire PCI device directly to a Guest virtual machine. No emulation or para-virtualization required. If you understand what that means, then you understand just how cool it is. This is HUGE, both in the virtualization world, and for PCs in general. In time, the paradigm is going to shift to having your complete PC virtualized - this is the first step.
What in the world would I use it for, you ask? Examples? You could have a PC with an additional video card that is directly passed to the Guest virtual machine, so that it can have its own dedicated video. A network card that can now operate at full native speed, as it is completely controller by the Guest system. Or a hard disk controller card managed by your Guest computer. This opens the door to now have a completely virtual desktop experience, and native speed servers. It will be possible, over time, to have a completely virtual desktop without the current issues with heavy graphics/ 3D systems.
The code for this has been in the cooker for several months. This is the first inclusion in a “release” of KVM, so expect continued improvements. I believe at this stage it is supported only with Intel’s Virtualization extensions (which means the AMD PC I have wont do it, but the Intel one will). I’ll double check on that and update that here with the requirements.
I am looking forward to testing this out with my MythTV (Tivo type software under Linux) system in the next few weeks.
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