Meeting notes from 1st December 2006. Facilitated by Justin Freeman, presentation by Luie Matthee from Red Hat.

Introductions

Justin introduced FOSSACT, the committee members in attendance, sponsorships and upcoming events. There will be no January 2007 meeting. Next meeting is 2nd February 2007.

Everyone seemed to like the later start time, which also enabled people to hang around more after the presentation, relax and chat. It was good :)

Presentation - XEN Virtualisation & JBoss

Luie Matthee presented and demonstrated XEN Virtualisation on Red Hat Fedora Core 6 running Windows XP & Office.

There was an extensive discussion about the difference between para-virtualisation (XEN) and full virtualisation (VMWare).

Following this there was a very brief overview of JBoss Application Server, which for many was a first time introduction into this technology.

There is a great Web Cast and other information on Xen Virtualisation on the Red Hat website.

Next Meeting

• Please see next meeting schedule.

Thanks for your support!

A big thanks goes out to Red Hat & Novell who provided the hot food and drinks for the last FOSSACT meeting of 2006.

See you all for the next meeting in February 2007!