[gentoo-dev] Consolidated Virtualization effort in Gentoo

[gentoo-dev] Consolidated Virtualization effort in Gentoo

[Benedikt Boehm]

Hi All,

recently Stuart and I came up with idea to consolidate development of all 
Virtualization systems in Gentoo.

Virtualization is a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a 
computer into multiple execution environments. Virtualization techniques 
create multiple isolated partitions (Virtual Machines (VM) or Virtual Private 
Servers (VPS)) on a single physical server. There are several kinds of 
virtualization techniques which provide similar features but differ in the 
degree of abstraction and the methods used for virtualization.

First technique: Virtual Machines (e.g. VMWare, MS VirtualPC)
Second technique: Para-Virtualized Machines (e.g. UML, Xen)
Third technique: Virtualization on the OS Level (e.g. Linux-VServer, OpenVZ 
aka Virtuozzo)

A more detailed comparision can be found at [1].

We'd like to encourage everyone who is interested in Virtualization 
development in Gentoo to join #gentoo-vps (or reply to the list) and 
participate in the planning of this effort.

Cheers!


[1] http://openvz.org/documentation/tech/virtualization
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