Speaking at the CentOS Dojo, Pune

I’ll be speaking about KVM, progress since EL6, and other virt stuff at the CentOS Dojo in Pune this Saturday, 22nd November.  If you’re in Pune, feel free to register and drop by!

Fedora Activity Day: Security I

Last Saturday a few of us gathered to work on Fedora Security.  This FAD (Fedora Activity Day) was the second in recent times held in Pune, after the testing FAD held in August. [caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”640”] Security FAD[/caption] The goal of the FAD was to get introduced to the...

KVM Forum 2014

It’s been a couple of weeks that I’ve returned from Düsseldorf, Germany, after attending the seventh KVM Forum; an event where developers and users of the Linux virtualization technology gather to discuss the state of the hypervisor and tools around it, and brainstorm on future plans. As with the previous...

KVM Forum 2014 Schedule

The 2014 edition of KVM Forum is less than a week away.  The schedule of the talks is available at this location.  Use this link to add the schedule to your calendar.  A few slides have already been uploaded for some of the talks. As with last year, we’ll live-stream...

OpenStack Pune Meetup

I participated in the OpenStack Meetup at the Red Hat Pune office a few weekends ago.  I have been too caught up on the lower-level KVM/QEMU layers of the virt stack, and know there aren’t too many people involved in those layers in Pune (or even India); and was curious...

KVM Forum 2014

The KVM Forums are a great way to learn and talk about the future of KVM virtualization. The KVM Forum has been co-located with the Linux Foundation’s LinuxCon events for the past several years, and this year too will be held along with LinuxCon EU in Dusseldorf, Germany. The KVM...

Planet Virt

For a long time various people have been telling me there’s not much information on the low-level / plumbing details of the virt stack on Linux. Especially information related to qemu and its various settings, devices, and so on. Documentation surely is difficult to come by, but a quick and...

Fedora Activity Day Pune Report

I participated in the Fedora Activity Day at the RH office in Pune yesterday. There was a decent turnout, 20+ people, and it was fun to test the in-progress version of the upcoming F21 release along with other folks. Siddhesh came up with the idea of rebooting Fedora-related activities in...

Use of Piwik Analytics

I run Piwik on OpenShift to collect stats on visits to this blog.  I’m not really interested in knowing who visits my site.  I’m only interested in knowing what people are visiting for, and how: which pages are more viewed? where are people landing to my site from?  how long...

Backing Up Data on Android Phones

Experimenting with the new cyanogenmod builds for Android 4.3 (cm-10.2) resulted in a disaster: my phone was setup for encryption, and the updater messed up the usb storage such that the phone wouldn’t recognise the in-built sdcard on the Nexus S anymore.  I tried several things: factory reset, formatting via...