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. openSUSE did some progress in terms of Virtualization: namely we consider integrating VirtualBox into openSUSE. 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. One thing we still lack is OS-level Virtualization: such as OpenVZ - this technology allows for partial virtualization at speeds unreachable for Xen. The most serious problem with bringing OpenVZ to openSUSE is: their project is too RedHat-centric. This is a serious issue, because all of their documentation, packages, utilities, templates and even source-code patches are RedHat-centric, and none of their software work on SUSE. I have failed to bring this technology to openSUSE. I hope there are SUSE developers around who can break their RedHat monopoly and bring this excellent technology to SUSE. Again: I vote for wide array of Virtualization solutions in openSUSE (instead of being Xen-centric). -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org