UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
24-26 March 2009 in London
Open Source Virtualization - An Overview
Abstract
Virtualization has been hyped for the past 9 to 18 months, different open source alternatives exist. For one the first times in tech history, open source has been leading the pack. Innovation happens in Open Source. This talk will guide you trough the different Open Source Virtualization alternatives, from Xen to KVM, from Bochs to Virtualbox, and lots of other tools. And will d`iscuss which tool suits in which environment.
Speaker biography
Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium, Europe and the rest of the universe. He is currently working for Inuits, and starting up some new projects.
Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen, used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is a frequent speaker at different international conferences.
He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test.
Kris blogs at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/
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