Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:58:10 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Xen 2.0 Officially Released! |
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Ian Pratt wrote: > The Xen team are pleased to announce the release of Xen 2.0, the > open-source Virtual Machine Monitor. Xen enables you to run > multiple operating systems images concurrently on the same > hardware, securely partitioning the resources of the machine > between them. Xen uses a technique called 'para-virtualization' > to achieve very low performance overhead -- typically just a few > percent relative to native. This new release provides kernel > support for Linux 2.4.27/2.6.9 and NetBSD, with FreeBSD and Plan9 > to follow in the next few weeks. > > Xen 2.0 runs on almost the entire set of modern x86 hardware > supported by Linux, and is easy to 'drop-in' to an existing Linux > installation. The new release has a lot more flexibility in how > guest OS virtual I/O devices are configured. For example, you can > configure arbitrary firewalling, bridging and routing of guest > virtual network interfaces, and use copy-on-write LVM volumes or > loopback files for storing guest OS disk images. Another new > feature is 'live migration', which allows running OS images to be > moved between nodes in a cluster without having to stop > them. Visit the Xen homepage for downloads and documentation. > > http://xen.sf.net
Looks like a fun thing to try on a new system as burn-in. I know openBSD better than OpenBSD, but that's not an issue for playing. There's another operating system I'd like to see supported, an obsolete old thing based on PC-DOS... The encapsulation doesn't have to work all that well, the original doesn't ;-)
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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