[Planetlab-users] PlanetLab Europe 4.2 Upgrade Schedule

[Xavier Cuvellier]

Dear PlanetLab Users,

PlanetLab Europe will be upgraded to the latest PlanetLab software. At
the end of the upgrade, all machines will be re-installed and include
the following new features:
 * Reference image changed from Fedora Core 4, to Fedora 8.
 * Upgrade kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.22.19 and VServer from 2.0 to 2.3
 * SMP support!
 * Adding Vsys as a replacement for Proper
 * Upgraded PlanetFlow
 * Allow multiple VServer reference images
 * New kernel features (ipv6, fuse, chopstix, kvm) available for the
future.

Schedule:
 * Monday 16/06 at 10am:
The PlanetLab Europe platform will be upgraded to support the latest
PlanetLab software. You may expect some difficulties to contact the
PlanetLab Europe website (www.planet-lab.eu) during this upgrade.

 * From monday 16/06 afternoon to friday 20/06:
All nodes that are part of the PlanetLab Europe platform will be
re-installed site by site. Please backup any important data on these
nodes since the re-installation will wipe the whole content of each
node.

-- 
Xavier Cuvellier
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - LIP6/CNRS
104 avenue du President Kennedy
75016 Paris, France
+33 (0)1 44 27 88 67