Writing about open source software, virtualization & more
For many years now, energy suppliers have been rolling out smart meters to home across the UK. It has largely been promoted as a way to let consumers reduce their consumption by watching their energy usage on an in home display (IHD) gadget. This is massively under selling the potential benefits of smart meters, and [ ]
I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 5.0.0, is now available from https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) Changes in this release: Fix compatiblity with libxml2 = 2.12.0 Bump min libvirt version to 2.3.0 [ ]
The x86 platform has been ever so slowly moving towards a world where EFI is used to boot everything, with legacy BIOS put out to pasture. Virtual machines in general have been somewhat behind the cutting edge in this respect though. This has mostly been due to the virtualization and cloud platforms being somewhat slow [ ]
As a virtualization developer a significant amount of time is spent in understanding and debugging the behaviour and interaction of QEMU and the guest kernel/userspace code. As such my development machines have a variety of guest OS installations that get booted for various tasks. Some tasks, however, require a repeated cycle of QEMU code changes, [ ]
A recent thread on the Fedora development list about unified kernel images co-incided with work I m involved in wrt confidential computing (AMD SEV[-SNP], Intel TDX, etc). In exploring the different options for booting virtual machines in a confidential computing environment, one of the problems that keeps coming up is that of validating the boot measurements [ ]
I am happy to announce a new bugfix release of virt-viewer 10.0 (gpg), including experimental Windows installers for Win x86 MSI (gpg) and Win x64 MSI (gpg). Signatures are created with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) With this release the project replaced the autotools build system with Meson [ ]
I’m pleased to announce a new release of GTK-VNC, version 1.2.0. https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk-vnc/1.2/gtk-vnc-1.2.0.tar.xz (213K) sha256sum: 7aaf80040d47134a963742fb6c94e970fcb6bf52dc975d7ae542b2ef5f34b94a Changes in this release include Add API to request fixed zoom level Add API to request fixed aspect ratio when scaling Add APIs for client initiated desktop resize Implement Extended…
I am pleased to announce that a new release of the libvirt-glib package, version 4.0.0, is now available from https://libvirt.org/sources/glib/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) Changes in this release: Replace autotools build system with meson Mandate libvirt = 1.2.8 Mandate libxml2 [ ]
I am pleased to announce a new release 3.0 of Entangle is available for download from the usual location: https://entangle-photo.org/download/ This release has a mixture of new features and bug fixes, as well as improved translations Ensure picture directory is an absolute path Add ability to flip image during preview Fix warnings about string length [ ]
I am happy to announce a new bugfix release of virt-viewer 9.0 (gpg), including experimental Windows installers for Win x86 MSI (gpg) and Win x64 MSI (gpg). Signatures are created with key DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) With this release the project has moved over to use GitLab for [ ]