[Discuss] Potential Subject for BLU Meeting

[John Abreau]

If we ignore containers, we've had the following meetings about VMs, I only
looked back as far as 2009.

April 2019 | Gnome Boxes
July 2012 | The Virtual Desktop
March 2012 | Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
November 2009 | AMD-V: AMD64 virtualization extension
October 2009 | Virtualization on the Desktop
February 2009 | Virtualization Deep Dive Day

A talk on the current status of VMs would be useful.

I run a few VMs at home, but I don't run them on my desktop or laptop
machines; I have a rackmount server I purchased on eBay with 32 GB of RAM
and24 CPU cores, and I run kvm/quemu on it with CentOS 7 as the OS.



On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 3:52 PM <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> Containers are NOT a light weight vm. Processes in a container are
> processes in the main system.
>
> Containers are essentially processes run in a chroot jail. The LXC stuff
> in the linux kernel adds a lot of namespace isolation and tools for
> containers, but in the end a process in a container are processes in your
> system.
>
> In a VM the hypervisor has a process ID, but all the processes in a VM are
> in the VM and not really exposed to the system.
>
> > We have had many meetings on vms and containers. Vms have been around
> > since
> > the 1970s. KVM has been in the mainline kernel since 2007. Containers are
> > a
> > more lightweight vm.
> >
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> > Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
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> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 10:34 AM Edward <epp at sillydog.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Virtual Machines?
> >>
> >> I did a Google search on the BLU site for any past meetings pertaining
> >> to VM's and it found none.
> >>
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