I have never attended a PDXLUG meeting (largely because of conflicts not
lack of interest) but if you talk about Xen I will be there.
-Ted
Dave,
It sounds like we have a good topic, Virtualization at the software
level. If you personally know some expert(s), please tell them about
our Lug and interest in their specialty.
Rodney
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Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Future Meetings -- compelling reason to attend???
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
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