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Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex, just released, is now our recommended OS platform.

It’s available from the OS dropdown when you configure your vMachine instance while adding to cart.

As always, any additional notes or custom configuration requests should be placed in the “Notes” field when you place your order, as well.

We are also working new Rails instances, with lots of new plugins (ActiveMerchant) available preinstalled, as well as vMachines for both Django 1.01 as well as 1.1 instances.

We currently have Adempiere 3.52+ available, as well, running on Postgres 8.3 – we are preparing the list of installed packages for a future blog post!

j

Ademipere 3.52 (and 3.51, FWIW) are now available.

They are running on either Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS, or Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, your choice.

Both are running on PostgreSQL 8.3 and the latest PLJava.

All our VMs have RDP access (via xrdp) built in on request, and the usual KVM VNC, and SSH access as well.

The ZK Web UI on 3.52 is a big step forward from 3.51, and is pretty impressive!

We can also help you integrate your Adempiere backend with other SAAS  Services (aka ESB / Enterpise Service Bus),such as Jitterbit integration / glue software http://www.jitterbit.com/Product/screenshots.php, also see here:http://jeff-davis.blogspot.com/2007/05/jitterbit-screencast-demonstration.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus

Also, a great find: daily Adempiere binaries and WebStore demo – (it’s .jsp, though :-/ ):

http://testadempiere.com/
Test ADempiere Web Components

http://testadempiere.com/webui/

And Workspace by Smilehouse – Finnish Adempiere => eCommerce bridge / transformation using OpenSyncro

http://workspace.smilehouse.com/overview.shtml

WS Open Interface API

http://www.opensyncro.com

As always, we can help you integrate / launch / evaluate these technologies, and plan your rollout strategy for them and Adempiere.

We can also just help you get started.

j

One of the latest cool new virtualization features KVM offers, is “VirtIO”, which is paravirtualized networking – a fancy way of saying “Really fast networking that runs at or near native host speed”.

Although the tun/tap based networking we’ve been using for over a year has proven itself to be very fast and reliable, we’ve done some experimenting with VirtIO after attending this June’s KVM Forum in Napa.

We’ve applied some benchmarks from the KVM virtio instructions, here:

Using VirtIO NIC – Kernel based Virtual Machine

and came up with about 40% higher than their results, guest-to-host, even with no virtio:

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex client, v.sep30, no virtio:

sysadmin@unconf-ubu810-oct3:~$ sudo iperf -c librehost.com -w 65536 -p 12345 -t 60
————————————————————
Client connecting to librehost.com, TCP port 12345
TCP window size:   128 KByte (WARNING: requested 64.0 KByte)
————————————————————
[  3] local 216.218.243.155 port 60365 connected with 216.218.243.130 port 12345
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-60.0 sec    995 MBytes    139 Mbits/sec
sysadmin@unconf-ubu810-oct3:~$

Host/server:

root@librehost-h64:~# iperf -s -w 65536 -p 12345 -I 5
WARNING: option -I is not valid for server mode
iperf: ignoring extra argument — 5
————————————————————
Server listening on TCP port 12345
TCP window size:   128 KByte (WARNING: requested 64.0 KByte)
————————————————————
[  4] local 216.218.243.130 port 12345 connected with 216.218.243.155 port 60365
[  4]  0.0-60.0 sec    995 MBytes    139 Mbits/sec
root@librehost-h64:~#

After virtio installed & configured, showing ~5x speedup:

sysadmin@unconf-ubu810-oct3:~$ sudo iperf -c librehost.com -w 65536 -p 12345 -t 60
————————————————————
Client connecting to librehost.com, TCP port 12345
TCP window size:   128 KByte (WARNING: requested 64.0 KByte)
————————————————————
[  3] local 216.218.243.155 port 36958 connected with 216.218.243.130 port 12345
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  3]  0.0-60.0 sec  3.90 GBytes    559 Mbits/sec
sysadmin@unconf-ubu810-oct3:~$

And on the server/host:

root@librehost-h64:/vm/155# iperf -s -w 65536 -p 12345 -I 5
WARNING: option -I is not valid for server mode
iperf: ignoring extra argument — 5
————————————————————
Server listening on TCP port 12345
TCP window size:   128 KByte (WARNING: requested 64.0 KByte)
————————————————————
[  4] local 216.218.243.130 port 12345 connected with 216.218.243.155 port 36958
[  4]  0.0-60.0 sec  3.90 GBytes    559 Mbits/sec

In conclusion, with this 5X speedup, all our Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex-based vMachines will offer virtio installed soon; likely by the time Ibex is released.

Ask for it and we’ll be sure to install it by hand on your VM if so desired.

j