Trellis v0.1 rollout plans

We are currently rolling out a major update to the VINI node software on the public VINI infrastructure. This update is based on the soon-to-be-released PlanetLab v4.2 software, and includes version 0.1 of the VINI Trellis kernel that we began building at last year's VINI Summer Camp. For more info on Trellis, please see the Trellis tech report.

A list of nodes to which Trellis v0.1 has already been installed can be found on the Trellis v0.1 Power User Guide. The rollout to the remaining VINI nodes is on hold as we take care of some issues at VINI Central; we will post our plans for upgrading the rest of the nodes as soon as we can. Note that the upgrade process involves wiping out all data on the node as well as installing a slice image based on Fedora 8 (rather than the current FC4 image).