I'm from Edinburgh, but I seem to have a lot of visits to Glasgow booked up, so... hello everyone from http://shearer.org/Computing_and_Technology
Anyway. Here's some notes from a bit of experimenting I've been doing. If you're interested in comparing a couple of the virtualisation systems around, Alpha Systems (sponsored by the Japanese government) has just released a new version of Xenoppix: We released new Xenoppix which is consisted of KNOPPIX5.1.1, Xen3.0.4, QEMU/KVM, and HTTP-FUSE(stackable/network virtual disk). You can compare Xen(3.0.4 on Linux2.6.16) and KVM(Release 12 on Linux2.6.19) on the CD-ROM. The boot of CD image is accelerated by LCAT. http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/xen/index-en.html http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/index_en.html (LCAT is impressive, it's the first fundamental improvement on Rusty's cloop since its release c. 1999. All livecds will benefit from it.) One of the things to compare these two against is QEMU+kqemu. kqemu is now GPL. Another point: since QEMU is a vital part of Xen, QEMU is implicit in the three most-used accellerated virtualisation systems for Linux, four if you count VirtualBox although I don't think many people are using it yet. QEMU 0.9.0 is out ( http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ ) Regards, -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish