Virtualization

Still an area of high interest
Server consolidation
High-reliability servers
Isolation and security

The big players
Xen
Full paravirtualization solution
Path into kernel has been slow
-> Ian Pratt Thu 11:00 rm C
User-mode Linux
Run a Linux instance as a user-mode process
Longstanding Linux project
-> Jeff Dike Sat 12:00 rm C

The big issue
A common hypervisor interface