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| 12 | <h1>Invirt</h1> |
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| 14 | <p>Invirt is free software for managing Xen virtual machines. Invirt |
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| 15 | powers the <a href="http://xvm.mit.edu/">xvm.mit.edu</a> service at |
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| 16 | MIT.</p> |
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| 18 | <h2>Invirt Features</h2> |
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| 19 | <ul> |
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| 20 | <li>Management of VMs over the Web</li> |
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| 21 | <li>Both hardware virtualization and paravirtualization</li> |
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| 22 | <li>Installation of any OS with a boot CD</li> |
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| 23 | <li>A three-minute automated Debian and Ubuntu installer</li> |
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| 24 | <li>Secure VNC console access via a Java applet</li> |
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| 25 | <li>Secure serial console access over SSH</li> |
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| 26 | <li>Authentication by Kerberos and by client Web certs or SPNEGO</li> |
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| 27 | <li>Authorization lists by AFS (optional)</li> |
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| [1848] | 30 | <p>Evan Broder and Greg Price |
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| 31 | gave <a href="http://cluedumps.mit.edu/wiki/2008/12-09">a talk about |
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| 32 | Invirt internals</a> in December 2008; you |
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| 33 | can <a href="cluedump.pdf">see the slides</a>.</p> |
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| [1846] | 35 | <h2>Getting Invirt</h2> |
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| 37 | <p>Invirt is free software under the GPL. The source repository is in |
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| 38 | Subversion:</p> |
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| 39 | <blockquote><tt>$ svn co svn://invirt.mit.edu/trunk invirt</tt></blockquote> |
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| 41 | <p>If you're interested in running Invirt in your own environment, |
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| 42 | feel free to contact us at <tt>invirt@mit.edu</tt>. It's not yet |
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| 43 | straightforward to install; we're working on it, and we're happy |
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| 44 | to help you set it up.</p> |
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| 46 | <p>Invirt is based at <a href="http://sipb.mit.edu/">SIPB</a>, the |
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| 47 | student computing group at MIT. We welcome new contributors; check |
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| 48 | out our <a href="http://bugs.launchpad.net/invirt/+bugs">bug |
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| 49 | tracker</a> for an idea of what we're working on now.</p> |
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| 50 | |
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| 51 | <p>Questions welcome |
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| 52 | at <a href="mailto:invirt@mit.edu">invirt@mit.edu</a>.</p> |
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