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OS Virtualization Interview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-distro-smell dept.

VirtualizationBuff writes "KernelTrap has a fascinating interview with Andrey Savochkin, the lead developer of the OpenVZ server virtualization project. In the interview Savochkin goes into great detail about how virtualization works, and why OpenVZ outshines the competition, comparing it to VServer, Xen and User Mode Linux. Regarding virtualization, Savochkin describes it as the next big step, 'comparable with the step between single-user and multi-user systems.' Savochkin is now focused on getting OpenVZ merged into the mainline Linux kernel."

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  1. Future Of Desktop/Workstations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    OS Virtualization is the death warrant for the OS X software market. Apple knows this.

    Ideally, as the desktop OS market becomes no-growth commodity one, we would be able to run Linux as all of our primary OSes with Windows there for compatibility and Apple dumping OS X and migrating their desktop, APIs and software, over to Linux and Windows.

    Ignoring the fact that Xcode is a steaming pile of shit for the moment...

    It would be the best of all desktop worlds:

    Windows is locked down and used only for compatibility when necessary.
    The good parts of OS X live on and get to be used by everyone.
    Linux solves the 'desktop problem' by dumping, or at least making irrelevant, KDE and Gnome

    The era of the desktop/workstation is fading. Small, handheld mobile wireless devices is where the industry is heading.

  2. Yep... by msauve · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and if someone really want to slow their servers down by running multiples on one processer, they can just buy a bunch of $20 486's on eBay instead, and get better reliability (a h/w failure only takes down 1 server instead of many).

    What's the difference between having a virus/worm/rootkit/zombie infection on a virtual server vs. a real one? You still need to rebuild/restore to recover.

    I suppose it's useful for an individual who wants to run multiple OSes, and easily/quickly switch between them, but that's a very small Slashdot/geek thing (which is of course why the article appears here).

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