November 2009

Provisioning virtual machines for KVM

Submitted by doka on 2009, November 22 - 10:41

I describe here an automated installation procedure to easily create Ubuntu virtual servers on the KVM hypervisor, using vmbuilder.

All the attributes of the virtual server will be defined in configuration files, so we will be able to reproduce and tune our server configurations later. Using this technique, complete server stacks can be provisioned. In this example we will create a virtual server for Drupal development. We apply some performance tuning for the install process, and the automated install of a new Drupal developer server can happen in 10 Minutes.

You will need an Ubuntu box with KVM and other tools for this exercise. How to get the proper environment with KVM working on Ubuntu 9.10, check this Howto.

State of Drupal in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Submitted by doka on 2009, November 1 - 12:56

After the new version of Ubuntu (9.10 or Karmic Koala) has been released, I put here a short status on Drupal 6 packages in Ubuntu.

The good new is that there is a package for Drupal 6 in most recent Ubuntu versions:

  • Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) has Drupal 6.10
  • Karmic Koala (9.10) has Drupal 6.12
  • Lucid Lynx (10.04) - not yet released - has Drupal 6.12