[clue-tech] virtualization

[David L. Willson]

I wish that someone with more time than I have would see the need for a Google doc or a shared whiteboard, or shared whatever, that folks can add features to, as they think of them. Like MH here, and his cross-platform-ness.

That, and the things I suggested, should go into a big checklist, don't you think?

Sadly, I've time for the idea, but not the execution thereof. Help?

David L. Willson
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----- "Maxwell Spangler" <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> -- 
> Maxwell Spangler
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