On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 10:58 -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote: > >Is there anything in particular anyone is interested in? > > I would be particularly interested in hearing from any expert(s) > doing work on Virtualization ( chip-level). With dual core chips and > 64 Bit data paths, being able to run multiple OSes concurrently (and > independently of each other) would be a great improvement over my > current sandbox environment ( multiple OSes installed on one HD, > wonder what the MBR looks like, prefer not to know). > > I know that Intel has at least one project in this arena. I assume > IBM, maybe locally, is also doing something.
Sad to say, but there's no hardware (chip level) work that's done around here that I know of. IMHO, the chip work is boring (this is admittedly coming from a software guy). The ppc chips have been doing virtualization for quite a while now, and there isn't really too much new on that front. More dense chip horsepower (SMT, HT, dual core) has made it more attractive, but there have been few quantum leaps. There are, however, a substantial number of people who do work on the software side of virtualization. There have been a number of open-source Linux-focused hypervisors, and there are now many people people working on Xen from a bunch of companies. Does anybody want to hear more about Xen? http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ Some of the recent open hypervisors: http://www.research.ibm.com/hypervisor/ http://www.research.ibm.com/secure_systems_department/projects/hypervisor/ -- Dave _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
