Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:42:52 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card
John wrote:
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card
--- Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:56 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card
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I use this for real work (number crunching etc &
virtualisation), a Lib
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What is virtualisation? I notice linux 2.6 has a
section called that in the kernel. Is it the same?
Things like VirtualPC, VMWare, VirtualBox, SVista, QEmu, Bochs, .....
where you can run -say- Windows 2000 inside another operating system.
Sometimes I got three of four of those running simultaneously.
As these virtual guest operatings systems take their share of RAM from
the host's RAM, a lot of RAM is needed.
I use it for shielding my employers remote call-in stuff from my own PC
(because otherwise the remote stuff takes over the entire desktop), for
trying out network stuff, testing of new Linux distros, you name it.
As far as the 2.6 kernels are concerned: I suppose you refer to Xen,
indeed some kind of virtualisation. See http://www.xen.org/
Philip
