I'm hoping to be able to put one together in a couple months (perhaps September?). I'm actually working through a bunch of virtualization stuff at work, and I'm thinking I can coalesce the stuff I'm learning about Open Source virtualization technologies (and lightweight Linux to run as a VM guest) into a decent presentation once I've finished.
Eric Shubert wrote: > Joseph Sinclair wrote: >> Francis Earl wrote: >>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: >>>> Citrix Announcement: >>>> http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 >>>> >>>> or right to download: >>>> http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp >>> I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen >>> still interesting on the Linux platform? (I understand why on other >>> Unices, KVM is highly dependent on Linux features, but this is a Linux >>> users group mailing list) >>> >> --- >> KVM ONLY works with chips that have virtualization extensions, and even then >> it has less-than-stellar performance due to the use of qemu(which is a nice >> tool, but quite slow) for the emulation layer. >> XEN, VirtuaBox, VMWare are all much more mature and better performing, and >> all have much better support for diverse guest systems. There are also a >> lot of tools and systems built on/for these products (Ganeti, VSMS, etc...). >> There are also a lot of lighter approaches for Linux-on-Linux, such as >> OpenVZ (Virtuozzo) and Linux VServer, which can provide very impressive >> results with very little overhead. >> >> The Free-Software world is about having many choices in a diverse software >> ecosystem, not having the latest new "shiny" take over from other great >> tools and technologies. >> > > Thanks for the concise explanation of the virtualization landscape Joseph. > > Would a virtualization overview along these lines (with a little more > elaboration) would be be a good presentation at a meeting? I'd certainly > find it interesting. >
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