Herbert Poetzl wrote:
yesterday evening I had the pleasure to meet with Serguei Beloussov. we had excellent Dinner at the
'Schnitzelwirt'
Which one? There are so many "Schnitzelwirt" in and around Vienna.
he clearly pointed out that his company has some
interest, that virtualization techniques - like the
one linux-vserver uses - 'gain momentum' in the face
of system emulators like VMware(tm) and partitioning approaches like Xen.
There is a demand for things like these. Running old software without migration to newer OSs is one purpose, test environments is the other.
E.g. I use VMware for testing stuff on different OS-versions, and on different OSs as well. The advantage is the easy installation, performance is the great disadvantage.
UML is nice for test automation, e.g. in the area of simulating clusters at desaster recovery.
Partitioning is nice, if some few similar environments are needed. E.g. on my last projects we had 12 test environments partitioned on 5 real IBM/AIX machines.
Maybe I am wrong, but for vserver I see the great advantage there, what the name says: virtual servers - very nice for virtual server housing.
At least I see a demand on integrating virtualization methods with cluster techniques like heartbeat, DRBD and SSI.
he also told me that they are watching this project very closely and that, while it is small compared to their products, it's quite interesting ...
after that we had some fun with Billards (Carambol) and right afterwards I was basically offered a job where I would be able to do some kernel development and get payed for doing so ...
let me know what you think!
Hopefully the results of such a cooperation will remain Open Source under GPL.
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