The 2.6.37-rc5 prepatch is out. "Well, no surprises this week. I think the bulk patch-wise are config patches (both ARM defconfig cleanups and some kconfig updates). And the rbd sysfs interface change stands out, but other than that it's mostly fairly small fixes all over." See the full changelog for...

Linus has released the 2.6.37-rc4 prepatch. "As suspected, spending most of the week in Japan made some kernel developers break out in gleeful shouts of 'let's send Linus patches when he is jet-lagged, and see if we can confuse him even more than usual'. As a result -rc4 has about...

Unlike virt-manager, virt-install is a command line tool that allows you to create KVM guests on a headless server. You may ask yourself: "But I can use vmbuilder to do this, why do I need virt-install?" The difference between virt-install and...

The 2.6.37-rc3 prepatch is out. "And I have to say, I'm pretty happy with how quiet things have been. Of course, maybe people are just lying low, waiting to ambush me next week with a flood of patches when I'm gone in Japan, all in order to try to be...