On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Gerry Reno wrote: > Hi Joe, > If I might ring in for a moment. Did you get a chance to attend the > OpenVZ session?
I sat there for about 5mins and left. The talk wasn't very good (at least for me) and I couldn't see I'd get anything out of it. > Hopefully they explained how virtual servers (VE's) are > different from VM's. no. > VE's are basically just kernel-based supercharged chroot > environments. The all share the same running kernel. That > is why Rio was saying that you don't have the overhead of > 84 separate running kernels. VE hosts are just huge > schedulers for the apps that run inside the VE's. There is > very little wasted resources. You can get many many more > VE's on a host that you can VM's. And that is why I think > in the future there will be about a 50-50 breakdown > between the VE approach to virtualization compared to the > VM approach. To the outside you cannot tell the difference > between a VE and a VM. On the network they both perform > the same. I didn't know any of this. I'd assumed that everything was a VM and didn't know a VE existed. Presumably this hasn't helped my understanding of virtualisation. Now to see what Rio has to say. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - lvs-users@LinuxVirtualServer.org Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
