On Sunday 20 May 2007 12:40, Sid Boyce wrote:
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
hi all !
I wrote an article about different types of Virtualization here: http://www.violtan.com/ae/virtualization.html
This article describes 4 stages of Virtualization: Emulation, Full Virtualization, Para-Virtualization and OS-level Virtualization.
I believe that openSUSE must excel at all types of Virtualization.
Agreed, I've played with some of them. I've always found the concept interesting and very useful in the enterprise ever since we at Amdahl went down that road with full purpose back in the 1980's and stole a decent temporary advantage over IBM. VM was waning and IBM didn't see a future for Virtualization, they certainly never looked at doing it in hardware and it was several years before PR/SM saw the light of day.
openSUSE did some progress in terms of Virtualization: namely we consider integrating VirtualBox into openSUSE.
Just yesterday I tried building Virtualbox on x86_64, only to be greeted with the message that's it's not likely to work on 64-bit any time soon, so that is one serious drawback. I also thought that VMWare had gone opensource, I tested a number of their 6.0 Workstation Betas, now I find the 6.0 release is for purchase only, so I'll leave that for the Corporates with deep pockets.
Until now openSUSE is too focused on Xen. Xen-centric approach is bad. We need a wide array of technologies in openSUSE. Qemu and DOSbox emulators are fortunately already included. openSUSE 10.3 kernel also support USB-FS (allows for using USB in guest VMs) , KVM (Qemu-accelerator) and VMI (kernel paravirtualization) each of these technologies improve Virtualization further.
I only recently got a box capable of running KVM, modules kvm, kvm_amd and kqemu are loaded, but I haven't gone beyond that so far.
I also find the concept of virtualisation interesting in fact it was the justification for my getting a new box. I have 10.3 Alpha 4 installed so the kvm modules are there and I have read Alexey's article above but I haven't worked out how to go beyond that so far :-)
Who are the people responsible for virtualization efforts in openSUSE ?
Good question, very little has been seen on the list and it has all been about Xen. Hopefully you have smoked a healthy discussion out into the open.
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