Dec 14th Mettin Report: Xen
My apologies for the lateness of this post. I meant to post it shortly after the presentation but got swept up with the holidays…
Monte Wingle gave a great presentation on Xen. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. Basically it allows you to run two operating systems at the same time. With the right kind of hardware it is possible to run Linux and Windows side-by-side.
Here are some links to help get you started on playing with Xen your self.
Official home page at University of Cambridge: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
Download Xen source and binaries: http://www.xensource.com/
Installing Xen on Ubuntu 6.06 – http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_3.0_ubuntu_dapper_drake
Xen on Fedora Core 6 Quickstart - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraXenQuickstartFC6
Give it a try and hit up #oalug on freenode.net for help.