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CERN openlab II - Platform Competence Centre - Virtualization

Other Resources

Virtualization technologies

Xen virtual machine monitor – Efficient virtualization with close to native resource utilization. Supports x86 and x86_64; IA64 and VT support in development. GPL licensed.

VMware – Proprietary virtualization technology supporting MS Windows.

Linux VServer – Virtual execution environments using chroot and other tools. GPL licensed.

openlab reports

Xen on Scientific Linux HowTo

Virtualization hardware extensions

Virtualization in Clusters – A report studying the application of virtualization with Xen in a gigabit network cluster.

HPC Virtualization with Xen on Itanium – MSc thesis about virtualization on Itanium.

Virtual Machine Monitors – Performance measurements of Xen on x86.

Various topics

An Introduction to Virtualization – Article about various virtualization technologies, with an extensive list of virtualization benefits.

Virtualisation page at NICTA.

Xen Wiki – Different topics on Xen.

Intel Virtualization Technology – Future virtualization extensions of x86 and IA64 architectures.

HP Virtual Server Environment

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Virtualization web