Don't suppose anyone would be interested in doing something in one of the meetings about virtualisation? It's quite a hot topic at the moment and I'm sure folks would be interested.
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/02/2007 11:47:32: > 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 > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
