[19:15] <axisys> hi all.. i have a laptop with intel core2 duo 2.4ghz, 8gb ram and 750gb hard drive.. I want to use it for my private cloud.. but first i want to install the desktop (since it is my laptop). then should I use vbox or kvm for the cloud? any other recommendation may be ?
[19:52] <niemeyer> axisys: Are you looking mostly at running virtual machines, or do you need an API to program with?
[20:44] <axisys> niemeyer: mostly virtual machines.. i want to have multiple cloud nodes and a way to manage them
[20:45] <axisys> i was looking at hadoop.. but wanted to find out if ubuntu has a default method to manage them
[20:45] <axisys> all should be contained w/ in my laptop
[20:46] <niemeyer> axisys: Plain kvm is easy to use.. libvirt will also be helpful if you want some additional management capabilities but stay lightweight
[20:46] <niemeyer> axisys: Hadoop is unrelated to this
[20:46] <niemeyer> axisys: Virtualbox may be helpful if you want a more graphical experience when managing your vms
[20:47] <axisys> niemeyer: for the vms i dont need graphics.. but i need to be able to do it all from my laptop/desktop
[20:49] <niemeyer> axisys: Look for information on libvirt and virtsh.. may provide you an interesting path to dig in
[20:50] <niemeyer> axisys: There are also graphical tools to interact with libvirt-managed machines, if the basic model work for you
[20:50] <niemeyer> works
[20:56] <axisys> niemeyer: thanks
[20:57] <niemeyer> axisys: No problem
[20:57] <axisys> niemeyer: is there a ubuntu page where I can start reading about it?
[20:58] <niemeyer> axisys: Google tells me so: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/Virsh
[20:58] <axisys> niemeyer: thanks
[20:59] <niemeyer> axisys: Regarding standard tools to help you managing a full deployment, nothing that works out of the box, but there's on going work in a project that will enable you to do this.
[21:55] <smoser> fyi, new Ubuntu Images on EC2 of 10.04 , 9.10, and 8.04
[21:55] <smoser> mails will appear https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cloud/2010-August/thread.html shortly
[21:56] <smoser> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/release-20100827/
[21:56] <smoser> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/release-20100826/
[21:57] <smoser> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/release-20100827/
[21:57] <smoser> good night.
[22:27] <afancy> How is the difference between Google's MapReduce paradigm and Microsoft's Azure framework?