Thanks. I'll be eager to see it! Joseph Sinclair wrote: > I'm hoping to be able to put one together in a couple months (perhaps > September?). > I'm actually working through a bunch of virtualization stuff at work, and I'm > thinking I can coalesce the stuff I'm learning about Open Source > virtualization technologies (and lightweight Linux to run as a VM guest) into > a decent presentation once I've finished. > > Eric Shubert wrote: >> Joseph Sinclair wrote: >>> Francis Earl wrote: >>>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >>>>> Citrix Announcement: >>>>> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >>>>> >>>>> or right to download: >>>>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp >>>> I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen >>>> still interesting on the Linux platform? (I understand why on other >>>> Unices, KVM is highly dependent on Linux features, but this is a Linux >>>> users group mailing list) >>>> >>> --- >>> KVM ONLY works with chips that have virtualization extensions, and even >>> then it has less-than-stellar performance due to the use of qemu(which is a >>> nice tool, but quite slow) for the emulation layer. >>> XEN, VirtuaBox, VMWare are all much more mature and better performing, and >>> all have much better support for diverse guest systems. There are also a >>> lot of tools and systems built on/for these products (Ganeti, VSMS, >>> etc....). >>> There are also a lot of lighter approaches for Linux-on-Linux, such as >>> OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Linux VServer, which can provide very impressive >>> results with very little overhead. >>> >>> The Free-Software world is about having many choices in a diverse software >>> ecosystem, not having the latest new "shiny" take over from other great >>> tools and technologies. >>> >> Thanks for the concise explanation of the virtualization landscape Joseph. >> >> Would a virtualization overview along these lines (with a little more >> elaboration) would be be a good presentation at a meeting? I'd certainly >> find it interesting. >> >
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