[XCSSA] Followup to Virtualization Talk Last Night

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 10:41 pm, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> I have to ask - any formal presentation/slides?

Nope... I wasn't even going to give a presentation (since FC6 blew up on my 
laptop)... but John Baker brought down one of his Comp.Sci. classrooms to 
listed to the scheduled presentation.. and since Craig didn't show... I went 
ahead and did the best I could.

We started with talking about emulation and virtualization in the 80's on 
AmigaOS, then Emulation vs Pentium/Ring-0 virtualization, then VMWare GSX vs 
ESX, Virtuosso and Xen.  We then discussed the differences between VMWare and 
Xen Hypervisor Virtualization, and the new VT processor (ring-1) features on 
the new AMDs (Pacifica) and Intel (VT) processors.


> FYI - shameless plug, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will support Xen
> virtualization - RHEL 5 Beta 2 was released less than 10 days ago and
> worth a peak, most folks will find it similar enough to Fedora Core 6.

Right.. it's pretty sweet.  I got to do two simultaneous FC5 installs into two 
Xen domains while running a full desktop in Dom0.  Pretty sweet.  I bought 
this new Turion64x2 (TL-50) laptop just for doing Windows on Xen.


> The RHN Satellite product, which will have a beta release soon will
> allow for creation off Xen guest and then kickstart/provisioning of RHEL
> 5 OS into that xen guest instance.

That's cool.. 
Wanna fly out in January and give a presentation on it Cliffy? :)

Tweeks