Free virtualization solution software for linux

E/AS Automation Solutions is open source software system for help automate your solutions even for personal and/or corporate ones.
E/AS written on CLIP language (CA-Clipper dialect, compiler can be obtained from ITK.ru) and uses CODB (CLIP Object Database) as data storage.
Main features:
- client-server technology (both data and interface forms)
- component infrastructure with interaction between components by messages
- interface forms on XML
- MDI
E/AS contains in typical distribution:
- client software written on clip-ui library
- server software with wrapper for run as daemon
- maintenance tools: CODB console and component manager
- base (form, auth) and example (contact) components
Enhancements:
- completely rewrite code for implement E/AS architecture
- component infrastructure
- own server program instead COBRA
- maintenance tools: CODB console and component manager
- base and example components
- autoupdate views

VirtualBox application is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction; see "InnoTek" for more about our company.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows and Linux 32-bit hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while InnoTek ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Virt-Factory project manages virtualized infrastructure:
Virt-Factory focuses on interacting with large numbers of virtual systems and on addressing some of the interaction problems that brings with it
Virt-Factory is primarily aimed at a fairly formal setting (data center), though we hope it is also useful on smaller scales
While Virt-Factory has some uses for bare-metal systems, it is first and foremost a tool for managing virtual systems. Future development will be much more focused on virtual systems management than bare-metal.
Virt-Factory provides both a web UI, for ease of use, and an XMLRPC API, for scripting of admin actions.
Virt-Factory is built on open-source projects including Cobbler, libvirt, and Puppet.
Today, Virt-Factory provisions and manages hosts and guests. It also addresses some of the problems specific to virtual systems. It creates complete host and guest images from metadata descriptions and centrally manages existing images.
Future work will make it possible to abstract away individual hosts and place guests into a pool of equivalent hosts, simplifying the administrators view of the data center for many tasks.
Whats It Run On?
It is being developed on FC-6. Well add support for FC-7 and RHEL-5 shortly.
How Stable Is It?
At this point, virt-factory an alpha level project that will probably eat your brane. However its getting better every day.
Whats the architecture look like?
Virt-factory provides a central server for managing virtual hosts and guests. The server exposes an XMLRPC API that is used by the Web UI, and can also be used by custom scripts. On Managed systems, a special "node daemon" is installed, which the central server communicates with over secure XMLRPC.
Who is the target user?
Developers who want to be involved in new systems management technology. Users wishing to run a large number of virtual systems that have a key interest in virtualization and system recipes / appliance concepts.
How is Virtualization used?
Virtualization plays a core role in virt-factory and is heavily integrated. The software takes care of the nuts and bolts and can entirely manage your virtualization, though logging into virtualization via xm and virsh is still supported. Virt-factory is about enablement of virtualization as a core systems-management strategy.
How do you treat appliances?
Appliances can be defined purely as metadata ("profiles") rather than binary blobs. The metadata describes the required virtual machines attributes (number of processors, memory etc), the base system installation (as a template data for the kickstart file), and the appliances "personality" as a puppet manifest. This makes it possible to distribute appliances easily, and allows end-users to adapt appliances to their needs while still being able to consume appliance updates.
Enhancements:
- This release concentrates on making the code more stable and easier to install/deploy.

Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively.

More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine.

For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software.

In its current condition, it allows us to run the KNOPPIX Japanese Edition on Windows.

virtbench is a set of benchmarks for virtualization environments / hypervisors. The project is designed to be easy to run and easy to extend. The main audience will be people developing hypervisors.

RapidWatcher is an infrastructure to implement monitoring solutions quickly.
Youve implemented the management solution youve been working on for quite some time.
You are now able to monitor your IT infrastructure using various tools from different vendors. Youre confident that the management solution can detect problems and inform operators before users/customers are aware of the problem, but what if there is a problem with the the monitoring solution itself?
Today management solutions are complex, and include many moving parts. Some of the tools do provide some degree of self-monitoring but they dont necessarily monitor all parts of the solution.
If the monitoring solution is not working properly, no one may notice until a problem goes undetected by the monitoring solution. So a tool to monitor the management solution is needed.
RapidWatchertm is designed to be used as the tool to monitor all components of a management solution to ensure that you know whether the management solution is operating as it should.
Main features:
- simple and focused tool hence can be implemented very quickly
- works independently without relying on the management solution
- flexible and extendible to facilitate monitoring of all components of a management solution
- provides easy access to the information via number of ways web, RSS, email, instant messages, etc.

Trac is an advanced tool for tracking software development projects. It provides a simple wiki, issue tracking system and tight integration with the Subversion revision control system. Trac/Subversion Development JumpBox bundles Trac 0.10.4 and Subversion 1.3.1.

WHY USE A JUMPBOX

Its Simple

Open Source applications are great. The applications are powerful, inexpensive and get the job done. But installing and configuring those applications can be a pain. A JumpBox delivers Open Source applications in a way that makes them simple to try, run and operate.

Its Quick

Actually downloading a JumpBox will take the most time. Once thats done, youre just a few minutes from having a working application that can serve multiple users.

Its Portable

A JumpBox collects the application, application dependancies and all application data into a single bundle that can easily be moved from one computer to another. This allows you to start running the application on your desktop and then as usage grows move it to a server without needing to reinstall or reconfigure. Plus with support for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux you can even move the application between platforms with little effort.

Its Safe

Manually installing Open Source applications not only takes a lot of time and effort, but when youre done its still left to you to figure out how to protect the data the application manages. With a JumpBox its easy to add automatic backups of the entire state of the application.

Its Virtual

A JumpBox application is a virtual appliance that bundles the open source application and all its runtime dependancies into a single package that runs on top of virtualization software from VMWare, Parallels or Xen. This means all JumpBox applications automatically gain the benefits of traditional server virtualization and can be dropped into existing virtualization infrastructure when available.

Its Comfortable

JumpBox provides a consistent runtime environment for all applications that we bundle. The applications may differ considerably, but their installation and operation will be familiar no matter which JumpBox you choose.