[nylug-talk] After meeting tonight, anyone want to discuss XEN stuff? (Also a bunch of misc thoughts and notes).

[Ajai Khattri]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Brian Gupta wrote:

> 4) QEMU is leveraged by XEN and KVM to provide some functionality.

I believe KVM is a fork of QEMU. QEMU can emulate other architectures too, 
not just x86.

> KVM
> promises to be much easier for to use than XEN. It will probably
> become the virtualization technology of choice for most desktop
> oriented Linux distros.

Being "official" here helps :-)

> 15) Nginx is a very cool web server. Higher performance and less
> resources than Apache. Not to mention easier to configure. Plus it is
> a better reverse proxy load balancer than Apache's relatively new
> mod-proxy-load balancing options.

Did you compare with lighttpd? The main downsides I see with "lighty" or 
nginx is that you basically have to run most scripting in CGI mode...

And converting mod_rewrite rules to lighty or nginx is "fun" :-)

> 23) Synergy is a very cool app.

Yeah, been using it for years. There is a GUI for Mac (QuickSynergy) and 
for Windows. Its uses TCP/IP. Can also be tunnelled over ssh for security.

> Anyone interested in forming an unofficial NYLUG/New York XEN special
> interest group?

Why not make it more generic? More like a virtualization on linux group.


p.s. In your eval, you missed out one older virtualization technology that 
I use: User Mode Linux (UML).



-- 
Aj.