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Hi All, |
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recently Stuart and I came up with idea to consolidate development of all |
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Virtualization systems in Gentoo. |
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Virtualization is a framework or methodology of dividing the resources of a |
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computer into multiple execution environments. Virtualization techniques |
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create multiple isolated partitions (Virtual Machines (VM) or Virtual Private |
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Servers (VPS)) on a single physical server. There are several kinds of |
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virtualization techniques which provide similar features but differ in the |
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degree of abstraction and the methods used for virtualization. |
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First technique: Virtual Machines (e.g. VMWare, MS VirtualPC) |
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Second technique: Para-Virtualized Machines (e.g. UML, Xen) |
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Third technique: Virtualization on the OS Level (e.g. Linux-VServer, OpenVZ |
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aka Virtuozzo) |
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A more detailed comparision can be found at [1]. |
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We'd like to encourage everyone who is interested in Virtualization |
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development in Gentoo to join #gentoo-vps (or reply to the list) and |
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participate in the planning of this effort. |
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Cheers! |
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[1] http://openvz.org/documentation/tech/virtualization |
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