On Sunday 20 May 2007 12:40, Sid Boyce wrote: > Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > hi all ! > > > > I wrote an article about different types of Virtualization here: > > http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualization.html > > > > This article describes 4 stages of Virtualization: Emulation, Full > > Virtualization, Para-Virtualization and OS-level Virtualization. > > > > I believe that openSUSE must excel at all types of Virtualization. > > Agreed, I've played with some of them. I've always found the concept > interesting and very useful in the enterprise ever since we at Amdahl > went down that road with full purpose back in the 1980's and stole a > decent temporary advantage over IBM. VM was waning and IBM didn't see a > future for Virtualization, they certainly never looked at doing it in > hardware and it was several years before PR/SM saw the light of day. > > > openSUSE did some progress in terms of Virtualization: namely we > > consider integrating VirtualBox into openSUSE. > > Just yesterday I tried building Virtualbox on x86_64, only to be greeted > with the message that's it's not likely to work on 64-bit any time soon, > so that is one serious drawback. > I also thought that VMWare had gone opensource, I tested a number of > their 6.0 Workstation Betas, now I find the 6.0 release is for purchase > only, so I'll leave that for the Corporates with deep pockets. > > > Until now openSUSE is too focused on Xen. Xen-centric approach is bad. > > We need a wide array of technologies in openSUSE. Qemu and DOSbox > > emulators are fortunately already included. openSUSE 10.3 kernel also > > support USB-FS (allows for using USB in guest VMs) , KVM > > (Qemu-accelerator) and VMI (kernel paravirtualization) each of these > > technologies improve Virtualization further. > > I only recently got a box capable of running KVM, modules kvm, kvm_amd > and kqemu are loaded, but I haven't gone beyond that so far.
I also find the concept of virtualisation interesting in fact it was the justification for my getting a new box. I have 10.3 Alpha 4 installed so the kvm modules are there and I have read Alexey's article above but I haven't worked out how to go beyond that so far :-) > > Who are the people responsible for virtualization efforts in openSUSE ? > > Good question, very little has been seen on the list and it has all been > about Xen. Hopefully you have smoked a healthy discussion out into the > open. I hope so too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
