RE: Future Meetings -- compelling reason to attend???

>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

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Hansen
>Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:14
>To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group
>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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