VMware demonstrates para-virtualized Linux

Romashka · 2006-09-18 15:50:06

That's cool! It would be nice to have Arch support for this too! ;-)

http://www.virtualization.info/2006/09/ … -para.html
http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/techpreview.html
http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/paravi … ation.html

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-19 07:38:25

wtf is paravirtualization ? i cannot find a human-readable definition. wikipedia usually helps, but here it only made me more confused... would you mind explaining in a simpe way ?

Romashka · 2006-09-19 08:14:30

brazzmonkey wrote:

wtf is paravirtualization ? i cannot find a human-readable definition. wikipedia usually helps, but here it only made me more confused... would you mind explaining in a simpe way ?

It is in the third posted URL:

A hypervisor provides the virtualization abstraction of the underlying computer system. In full virtualization, a guest operating system runs unmodified on a hypervisor. However, improved performance and efficiency is achieved by having the guest operating system communicate with the hypervisor. By allowing the guest operating system to indicate its intent to the hypervisor, each can cooperate to obtain better performance when running in a virtual machine. This type of communication is referred to as paravirtualization.

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-19 10:37:06

sorry, you can call me stupid. all i understand is that this can improve virtualization performance.

nevermind.

Romashka · 2006-09-19 10:49:02

brazzmonkey wrote:

all i understand is that this can improve virtualization performance.

Yes. Xen uses this technology too - and we all know that it is fast.

tomk · 2006-09-19 13:33:07

I know what you mean, brazzmonkey. That word "hypervisor" just sounds so made up, but apparently it's been in use since the 60's.

This article may help you - I found it useful, anyway.

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-19 16:16:27

wow, this is really too much for me. i suppose i'm not an IT person as much as you guys are. no problem. thanks for trying to make me understand. i won't spam this thread anymore...

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