From dfw-sug at oryx.cc Tue Jun 9 16:04:07 2009 From: dfw-sug at oryx.cc (Jerry Kemp) Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:04:07 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status Message-ID: <4A2EEA67.8070109@oryx.cc> Can anyone share the status of the DFW Sun user group/OpenSolaris user group. I am aware that there has been turn over in the Dallas office, but to the best of my knowledge, I have not received any meeting (or other notices) since February 2009. I don't believe that anything has been trapped in my SPAM filter. Does anyone have a status? thanks, Jerry Kemp From bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us Tue Jun 9 17:28:41 2009 From: bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:28:41 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status In-Reply-To: <4A2EEA67.8070109@oryx.cc> References: <4A2EEA67.8070109@oryx.cc> Message-ID: On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Can anyone share the status of the DFW Sun user group/OpenSolaris > user group. > > I am aware that there has been turn over in the Dallas office, but to the > best of my knowledge, I have not received any meeting (or other notices) > since February 2009. I naturally assumed that the silent dismissal of the meeting notices must mean that the Dallas office is closed due to Dallas being such a small market and there is bigger opportunity elsewhere. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ From David.J at Sun.COM Wed Jun 10 05:44:01 2009 From: David.J at Sun.COM (David Jackson) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:44:01 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status In-Reply-To: References: <4A2EEA67.8070109@oryx.cc> Message-ID: Bob Nethernon sent out the following back in February, It is with deep regret that we must cancel this month's DFW OpenSolaris User's Group meeting. Recent changes in our organization have made it increasingly difficult to host these meetings after hours. We will need to make some changes if we are to continue. I would like to ask a couple of questions to see how we can best meet the needs of our community. Please don't be shy with your replies, but you can send them to me offlist if you prefer. Would you be able to meet during the day time instead of after hours ? If so, it might allow us to keep the meetings at the Sun facility. Do you know of an alternate meeting location ? Would one of you be willing to host the meeting at your facility ? Are there any of our good partners that would be willing to host meetings ? And last - I'd like to find a couple of volunteers to help with things like communications, updating the web site, keeping track of the schedules. Several of you have volunteered to do this in the past and I think it's time to take you up on your offers. So if you are in a position to help out a bit, please let me know. If any of you are planning on attending Community One, please come by and say hello. It promises to be a good event and I'm looking forward to meeting up with some of the other group leaders to get some ideas of what we might do in the future. Thanks for you patience and understanding. Bob David Jackson Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Professional Services david.j at sun.com 214-673-8043 On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Jerry Kemp wrote: > >> Can anyone share the status of the DFW Sun user group/OpenSolaris >> user group. >> >> I am aware that there has been turn over in the Dallas office, but >> to the best of my knowledge, I have not received any meeting (or >> other notices) since February 2009. > > I naturally assumed that the silent dismissal of the meeting notices > must mean that the Dallas office is closed due to Dallas being such > a small market and there is bigger opportunity elsewhere. > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > _______________________________________________ > ug-dfwosug mailing list > ug-dfwosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-dfwosug From bob.netherton at gmail.com Wed Jun 10 06:49:15 2009 From: bob.netherton at gmail.com (Bob Netherton) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:49:15 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status In-Reply-To: References: <4A2EEA67.8070109@oryx.cc> Message-ID: <4A2FB9DB.1010802@gmail.com> Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Jerry Kemp wrote: > >> Can anyone share the status of the DFW Sun user group/OpenSolaris >> user group. >> >> I am aware that there has been turn over in the Dallas office, but to >> the best of my knowledge, I have not received any meeting (or other >> notices) since February 2009. > > I naturally assumed that the silent dismissal of the meeting notices > must mean that the Dallas office is closed due to Dallas being such a > small market and there is bigger opportunity elsewhere. Not at all. We're still here and working like mad :-) What we lost were some great enthusiastic folks that helped out with things after hours like the user group meetings. I presume they are still enthusiastic, just no longer have access to the facility to help with logistics. I hope to find a less challenging meeting location so we can go back to business as usual. And unusual in that I'd like to start getting more participation from the audience - maybe something like lightening talks about what you are doing. We can talk about that at the next meeting. Bob From bob.netherton at gmail.com Wed Jun 10 06:54:04 2009 From: bob.netherton at gmail.com (Bob Netherton) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:54:04 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status Message-ID: <4A2FBAFC.6060704@gmail.com> Jerry Kemp wrote: > Can anyone share the status of the DFW Sun user group/OpenSolaris user > group. Alive and well. We will be holding our next meeting at the Sun office on June 18 as originally planned. The topic will be What's (New) in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - a release party of sorts. We also have a small stash of giveaways. I have also created a facebook group called DFWOSUG to help with some of the communications. If you have a facebook id, please join. I have also started using the #dfwosug twitter hash tag, when appropriate for those of you that follow on twitter (I am throatwarbler on twitter should you want to follow). > I am aware that there has been turn over in the Dallas office, but to > the best of my knowledge, I have not received any meeting (or other > notices) since February 2009. Then something is amiss. We did cancel the April and May meetings and I did send out email about those. If you didn't get those then we need to find out why. I did look in the archives and don't see the messages, so the problem must be on my side - so that puts it in my camp. I see David Jackson sent around the email you all were supposed to receive. Thanks David - much appreciated. The turnover has hit our extracurricular activities much harder than we expected. I did send around some email back in May asking for some volunteers and an alternative meeting location. Didn't get many replies from it - I hope that you guys have been getting the emails. The bottom line is that we need to find another meeting location, and rather quickly. So if anybody has some ideas, I'm all ears :-) I do apologize for the disruption in meetings the last couple of months. If anybody wants to volunteer to help with planning, communication, whacking the weeds - please let me know. I really would like a couple of non-Sun folks to help out with this. From Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM Wed Jun 10 07:14:03 2009 From: Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM (Bob Netherton) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:14:03 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] Fascinating..... Message-ID: <4A2FBFAB.4090302@sun.com> Interesting - apparently my email from my Sun address has been silently bouncing. And all this time I though y'all were just ignoring me :-) Many apologies - must have been frustrating not hearing anything. So now that I have your attention :-) Any volunteers to be a steering committee of sorts ? And does anybody have a good meeting location that we can use in the future ? Bob From bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us Wed Jun 10 08:08:15 2009 From: bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us (Bob Friesenhahn) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:08:15 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ug-dfwosug] DFW SUG/OSUG status In-Reply-To: <4A2FBAFC.6060704@gmail.com> References: <4A2FBAFC.6060704@gmail.com> Message-ID: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Bob Netherton wrote: > > Then something is amiss. We did cancel the April and May meetings > and I did send out email about those. If you didn't get those then > we need to find out why. I did look in the archives and don't see > the messages, so the problem must be on my side - so that puts it in > my camp. It seems that there are several mailing lists involved. Some mail lists are internal to Sun. We (outsiders) are on this mail list. Please post here. :-) > I did send around some email back in May asking for some volunteers > and an alternative meeting location. Didn't get many replies from > it - I hope that you guys have been getting the emails. The list archive shows no emails posted at all in May. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ From Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM Wed Jun 17 09:58:58 2009 From: Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM (Bob Netherton) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:58:58 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 now available for testing Message-ID: <4A3920D2.8070009@sun.com> The first beta release of VirtualBox 3.0 is now available. You can download the binaries at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0_BETA1/ Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added: * *Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only)* * *Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental)* * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests There is a very interesting article at ZDnet where the only thing they could say bad about vbox was lack of SMP support. It's there now :-) See http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/What-s-the-best-hosted-virtualisation-suite-/0,139023769,339296797-4,00.htm for more information. In addition, the following items were ?xed and/or added: * Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782) * Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826) * Solaris hosts: tighten the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions * VMM: ?xed occassional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only) * VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don?t support this feature (most do); bug #638) * VMM: ?xed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927) * VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels) * GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo) * GUI: redesigned settings dialogs * GUI: allow to create/remove one host-only network adapters * GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export) * GUI: Fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157) * VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client * Networking: ?xed another problem with TX checksum of?oading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18 * VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080) * VHD: ?xed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image * VBoxManage: ?xed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK ?les giving raw partition access (bug #3510) * OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility ?xes * Shared Folders: sometimes a ?le was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785) * Shared Folders: allow to change ?le attributes from Linux guests and use the correct ?le mode when creating ?les * Shared Folders: ?xed incorrect ?le timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404) * Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time syncronization and guest property lookup * Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information) * Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed) * USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams * NAT: allow to con?gure socket and internal parameters * Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now Please do not use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines. A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release meant for early evaluation and testing purposes. Please use our 'VirtualBox Beta Feedback' forum at http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=15 to report any problems with the Beta. From bob.netherton at gmail.com Wed Jun 17 17:08:19 2009 From: bob.netherton at gmail.com (bob netherton) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:08:19 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] Reminder: DFWOSUG meeting on Thursday June 18 - What's new in iPhone 3.0 Message-ID: <4A398573.5080003@gmail.com> No, we're not doing that, but I thought that might get your attention. Just a reminder that we will be meeting at the Sun Dallas Office on Thursday June 18. The topic will be What's New in OpenSolaris 2009.06. If you are an OpenSolaris user you will find quite a bit in this release to be excited about. If you are not then consider this a good sneak peak into what the Next Solaris might look like. Things like the new auto installer (AI), improvements in the package manager, crossbow, powertop (you have to see this), zfs root, the new Live Upgrade like enhancements, Network Automagic, power management, suspend to RAM, and a bunch of other stuff (maybe even some VirtualBox 3.0). Should be a good meeting. If that didn't do it - SWAG alert. I have some shirts, caps, and who knows what else I will dig up by tomorrow evening. Normal agenda. Start meeting around 6pm for some social time. Pizza and beverages around 6:30 and we'll start with the program at 7pm. Please take a look at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/dfw-osug for directions to the Sun office. For registration, let's do this old school - sign in when you get here. We'll make this as quick and easy as possible, but if you do plan on attending please drop me an email privately (bob.netherton at gmail.com) so I can get a headcount for the pizza. I've also created a facebook page for our group. Feel free to join http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=d68510341f367dd455c5924eaaa51395&gid=90502152957 and you can register your attendance there instead of email if that is easier. For the Twitter crowd, I've started using #dfwosug hash tags for usergroup related tweets - not that there have been that many yet. But if you are a twitter person, please tweet away. From Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM Tue Jun 30 08:07:01 2009 From: Bob.Netherton at Sun.COM (Bob Netherton) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:07:01 -0500 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] VirtualBox 3.0 (SMP guests, 3D graphics from guests) has been released Message-ID: <4A4A2A15.2070905@sun.com> VirtualBox 3.0 has been released and is now available for download. You can get binaries for Windows, OS X (Intel Mac), Linux and Solaris hosts at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Version 3.0 is a major update and contains the following new features * SMP guest machines, up to 32 virtual CPUs: requires Intel VT-x or AMD-V * Experimental support for Direct3D 8/9 in Windows guests: great for games and multimedia applications * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests There is also a long list of bugs fixed in the new release. Please see the Changelog for a complete list. Bob From Brad.Beadles at agilysys.com Tue Jun 30 09:47:01 2009 From: Brad.Beadles at agilysys.com (Beadles, Brad) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:47:01 -0400 Subject: [ug-dfwosug] VirtualBox 3.0 (SMP guests, 3D graphics from guests) has been released References: <4A4A2A15.2070905@sun.com> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: