Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 10, 2007 03:45 PM
I am very excited about the possibilities of virtualization on the desktop. This means I can run Windows in a virtual machine for testing purposes without having to reboot.
Not with the virtualization described in this article. It's just for multiple instances of Linux.
"Won't it require a very fast CPU with lots of RAM? Won't it slow down the system?"
New processors support virtualization and make it all much more efficient.
Running under virtualization will still be slower than running without virtualization. The new support in the new processors just means the performance impact will be less. There will still be a performance impact.
"AMD made Hypervisor and I think Intel made vPro or something. Wouldn't it be better if they just made one instead of making one each?"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
"Tricky with hardware virtualization, software virtualization, virtualization and paravirtualization. OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Hypervisor, vPro, Xen, IPC/PID/UTS virtualization, KVM, etc, its so many"
There are always going to be competing technologies. That's a good thing.
Competition would be good if it were
directed towards competing implementations
of compatible products. But it's not. The problem
is that all these different approaches are
incompatible with each other. That's a bad thing.
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Re:Virtualization blah
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 10, 2007 03:45 PMI am very excited about the possibilities of virtualization on the desktop. This means I can run Windows in a virtual machine for testing purposes without having to reboot.
Not with the virtualization described in this article. It's just for multiple instances of Linux.
"Won't it require a very fast CPU with lots of RAM? Won't it slow down the system?"
New processors support virtualization and make it all much more efficient.
Running under virtualization will still be slower than running without virtualization. The new support in the new processors just means the performance impact will be less. There will still be a performance impact.
"AMD made Hypervisor and I think Intel made vPro or something. Wouldn't it be better if they just made one instead of making one each?"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
"Tricky with hardware virtualization, software virtualization, virtualization and paravirtualization. OpenVZ, Linux-VServer, Hypervisor, vPro, Xen, IPC/PID/UTS virtualization, KVM, etc, its so many"
There are always going to be competing technologies. That's a good thing.
Competition would be good if it were
directed towards competing implementations
of compatible products. But it's not. The problem
is that all these different approaches are
incompatible with each other. That's a bad thing.
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