Re: Private vs Public Setup of VCL

2011-05-27 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Aaron writes: > ... > I would agree that the simplest description of a public cloud is what > you mention - "one that allows anyone to sign up(either freely or > paid) to access the resources provided". Like amazon EC2, etc. > > The hybrid model mentioned is what I would describe as a private clo

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2.1 - voting based on RC2

2011-03-31 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:29:52PM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote: > There were a couple of bugs found related to IE that kept graphs from being > displayed that seemed worth fixing before doing a release. I'm starting a > different thread to vote again based on RC2 to make it easier to tally vo

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2.1

2011-03-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 -- --henry schaffer

Re: use of these lists

2011-02-09 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 but Josh writes: > ... > Any discussion about things related to the development of VCL should > go to the vcl-dev list. Any discussion about installation, > configuration, and use of VCL should go to the vcl-user list. Looking at the discussion on the vcl-dev list, installation and c

Re: Computer Lab

2010-09-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
o the vcl-dev list - I think you are more likely to get an answer there. --henry > Thank, > Gabriel. > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Henry E Schaffer wrote: > > Gabriel Mu?oz writes: > >> Can I use vcl for a phisical machine inside a lab? > > > > ?

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2 - voting based on RC2

2010-09-22 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 --henry schaffer

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.2

2010-09-19 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 yes, release VCL 2.2 --henry schaffer

Resources to start your own VCL

2010-09-14 Thread Henry E Schaffer
The NC State VCL Team has been asked a number of times to estimate the full cost to implement the VCL de novo. This is *very* hard to do for a number of reasons. Two very important reasons: the exact size desired or needed is seldom known; and the amount of existing infrastructure, including ha

Re: Reservations and Reloading

2010-03-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Ryan writes: > When testing the service I noticed something curious. If I make a > reservation, the vm files are copied and powered on. When I end the > reservation, the copied vm files are destroyed and copied again and the vm > is powered on again - the vm is reloaded. What is strange to me is

Re: [VOTE] release VCL 2.1

2009-11-17 Thread Henry E Schaffer
+1 -- --henry schaffer

Re: Fwd: Image Loading Times

2009-11-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Cliff writes: > I'm running image loading tests and I am noticing that it > takes about 10 minutes to load an 8 gig VCL image from the > storage appliance. My experience is from 8 to 18 minutes to load a (bare metal) image depending on the size of the image. (This is one reason to make images

Re: wsname.exe dependency no longer available

2009-10-08 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Andy writes: > There is a dependency utility called wsname.exe. The site from which this > utility had been obtained no longer exists and doesn't appear to have moved: > http://mystuff.clarke.co.nz/MyStuff/wsname.asp > > The wsname.exe utility is used by VCL to name Windows computers. It does a

Re: VCL Architecture Change Proposal

2009-05-12 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I'm giving my own viewpoint - from outside the group working on the architecture - but I do have some experience with software projects. Brian writes: > This cloud proposal is new and different, and it will redesign and > likely recode the existing VCL core. Although it seems different,

Re: VCL project name

2009-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Kevan writes: > On May 1, 2009, at 3:28 PM, aaron_pee...@ncsu.edu wrote: > >Matt, Alan, Kevan, > > > >Any additional information on the project name ? > > > >I found this in the archives: > >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200904.mbox/%3c4d6e71c2-396a-4b02-afa9-041edd94f.

Re: VCL project name

2009-05-04 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Aaron writes: > actually no we can NOT use Vcloud. > > VMWare is using that name > Did they start using it before 2 Feb 2008 when we started using it? (check the registration of the vcloud.org domain and then check out http://www.vcl

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2009-03-06 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Kevan writes: > ... > Perhaps an example would be useful. > > There are multiple cases where Open Source projects have moved to > Apache and maintained their name. For example, both OpenEJB and > ActiveMQ were Codehaus projects. They both entered Apache Incubator. > There was a period of ti

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2009-03-06 Thread Henry E Schaffer
I share in Josh's puzzlement. Since we don't have and never have had a VCL Department, do we need to start one and then close it down? What we have is software which we call "VCL", and this is reflected in the documentation and the URL to use our production system (vcl.ncsu.edu). At NC S

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2009-02-25 Thread Henry E Schaffer
We've had lots of points of view, perhaps showing that we have a diversity of starting points and understandings. Is there an Apache Foundation doc (beyond the naming guidelines) that gives us a common starting point? -- --henry schaffer

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2009-02-24 Thread Henry E Schaffer
John writes: > Given Alan's assessment below, there appears to be an impasse without > changing the project name. What impasse? Alan is quoting Matt - who seems to say that if NC State does not have a separate project - and is just powering its production with Apache VCL (and says so) that s

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2008-12-19 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Alan writes: > ... > If VCL is a trademark owned by NCSU then they would have to assign the > trademark to the ASF or we would have to change our project's name. OK - I think we've reached a very clear question to be resolved. I think here's what needs to be resolved (at least in my mind):

Re: VCL, is this name kosher?

2008-12-18 Thread Henry E Schaffer
Alan D. Cabrera writes: > On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Josh Thompson wrote: > ... >>I do have some questions as to why we can't keep the name. >> >>Something I don't understand is that if NCSU were to completely stop doing >>anything with VCL other than developing it at ASF, and then were to set u