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08/09/2007, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Speaker:
Jack Lo, Senior Director of R&D/Datacenter Platforms, VMware.
A variety of technologies, such as binary translation, paravirtualization, and hardware assist, are available for virtualizing x86 servers and operating systems. This talk will provide an overview of some of these technologies and how they are used to virtualize operating systems such as Linux.
Being an open source OS, Linux stands to benefit tremendously from community awareness of the specific challenges and opportunities that exist for operating systems running in a virtual environment. This talk will provide an update on community efforts to increase the performance and portability of Linux in a virtual machine, highlighting examples of collaboration between hypervisor developers and the Linux community. We will discuss techniques that are supported in VMware products, in Linux distros, and in the mainline Linux kernel. The talk will also highlight future trends in virtualization, including ones that are directly of interest to the Linux community.
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