Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

The ATI bods have long built an Overdrive feature into their graphics card drivers, allowing for some clock-pumping overclocking action to boost performance. Well, in the light of increased competition from Chipzilla, it seems that AMD could well be taking a lesson from its Canadian cousins and including such a feature with new Phenom processors. Check this out for that feature, you could put individual CPUs in overdrive. Cool stuff this. L'inq

What all is included: Virtualization platform enhancements help deliver new levels of performance, scalability and compatibility for running the most demanding workloads in virtual machines: Expanded storage and networking choices such as support for SATA local storage, 10 Gig Ethernet, and Infiniband expand storage and networking choices for virtual infrastructure Support for TCP Segment Offload and Jumbo frames reduce the CPU overhead associated with processing network I/O Support for hardware nested page tables such as in processor assists for memory virtualization Support for paravirtualized Linux guest operating systems enables higher levels of performance through virtualization-aware operating systems Support for virtual machines with 64GB of RAM and physical machines with up to 128GB of memory New virtual infrastructure capabilities help deliver increased infrastructure availability and resilience: VMware Storage VMotion enables live migration of virtual machine disks from on...

For example, the Mac OS X Desktop, Documents, Pictures and Music folders can be used as the Desktop, My Documents, My Pictures and My Music folders in Windows. There may be some circumstances where users prefer to maintain separate sets of folders in the two operating systems, but given that Parallel's existing Coherence mode allows for Mac and Windows programs to run alongside each other (instead of restricting Windows to a single virtual screen inside one Mac window), this could be much more convenient than the traditional shared folder. Read on...

I just love the copy feature. It not only copies fast across the host to guest and saves me huge amount of time. Previously I either FTP'ed the files or downloaded them from the VMs. But this one is very fast! And not only that , it also carries the permissions across the machines. That is very crucial for me when testing RAC as the permissions always kills me. Be it a tar, zip or even a edited bash_profile filer on windows and then copying it to the Linux VM. Check out the lovely print screens!