09 Mar 2015
I’ve written previously about random numbers in virtual machines. KVM still remains the only hypervisor to offer an RNG device to guests. Quite a lot of exciting changes have landed in the upstream Linux kernel since that last post. I have written an article in the RHEL blog about it:...
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05 Mar 2015
We had a F21 release party at the MIT COE, the venue for FUDCon Pune. We were expecting about 20 people to turn up, we did not want to make this a big event. The students from MIT who attended were enthusiastic and already use Linux for their coursework. They...
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26 Feb 2015
If you’re planning on attending FUDCon Pune, and are going to need subsidy for travel and accomodation, you should head to this link to fill out the form requesting for one. You may have some questions about this, and we already have some answers. Feel free to hop on to...
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19 Feb 2015
Fedora Ambassadors from Pune are hosting the F21 release party at the MIT COE, on Saturday, 21st Feb, from 10:30. Details on the party page. It’s been a while since F21 released, but with the FUDCon preparations + planning and travel of the ambassadors for conferences, hosting the release party...
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17 Feb 2015
We had a good productive meeting today in #fedora-india as well as on phone + in-person at the Red Hat Pune office. We used the Etherpad at http://piratepad.net/FUDConPunePlanning for keeping notes. Highlights are: We'll soon add a code of conduct / anti-harrassment policy for the event Outreach: everyone focussed on...
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07 Feb 2015
Yesterday was the first day at devconf.cz 2015. It’s my first devconf.cz, and I’m impressed by the large turnout and the perfect management of the event by the organizers. Yesterday was also the day I presented my talk on live migration of QEMU/KVM VMs. The slides are here. There was...
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24 Jan 2015
Mark your calendars for Jun 26 - 28 for FUDCon Pune. Start making travel arrangements. Think of topics to speak on, workshops and hackfests to organise, and have fun with friends. FUDCon Pune is being hosted at MIT COE. They have excellent infrastructure and an amazing team of people who...
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11 Dec 2014
When the call for bids for FUDCon APAC 2015 was put out, a few of us huddled together to discuss a bid from India. We had already organised a successful FUDCon in Pune in 2011, so our initial conversations were around which city to host it in. Pune won again,...
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24 Nov 2014
The Fedora Project will soon put out its 21st release. I’ve been running the pre-release bits for a while now, here are a few observations: Upgrade from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 via 'fedup' was fast on my SSD disk, and there were no blockers after the reboot - minimal...
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23 Nov 2014
I spoke at the CentOS Dojo in Pune yesterday on new features available in CentOS release 7.0 since the 6 release. Slides are available here: What’s New in Virtualization. The event was organized by the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group (PLUG) for the CentOS project. My talk was scheduled as the...
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