[clue-tech] virtualization

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 17:38 -0600, David L. Willson wrote:
> I can't speak for Shawn (sp!), but I'd love to do a virtualization shootout.
> 
> I think it bears a bit of planning, since I know there are features I don't use, and I'll bet there are features others don't use, so we probably want to derive a master feature list to check our products against. This might be a start...
> 
>  - Snapshots (one? many? tree?)
>  - Grow-able image files
>  - Export to OVF, Import from OVF
>  - Move running guest from one host machine to another
>  - Move quiescent guest from one host machine to another
>  - Start a network-based guest over (iSCSI, AOE, NFS, SMB, yada...)

- Support for hardware virtualization vs binary translation
- Ability to map single memory pages identical to 2+ guests (KSM)
- command line control vs GUI
- distribution support (sorry, Xen, step back)
- Cost
- Guest OS support for things like virtio, seamless mouse
- Sound support: I think KVM is a little lacking here right now.

- Actual Performance Benchmarks: same task, same hw, different
virtualization

- Future Roadmap: If you invest in this now, what can you expect in the
future?

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