Virtualization In PowerPC

[Jose R R]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
> Jose R R wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>>> Jose R R wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Victor Sanchez.
>>>> <victor.sanchez at entercs.com.mx> wrote:
>>>>> I just noticed that there are not Virtualization packages in the Red hat
>>>>> enterprise 5.3, does this mean that Redhat is not givin support for
>>>>> virtualizatin in this arquitecture? anyone knows? .
>>>> If you are talking about IBM Power-based systems, then those are  an totally
>>>> different breed of powerful beasts than the relatively weakling x86
>>>> creatures.  For an initial overview of those, please Google "IBM power
>>>> partition"  --you can take it from there, carnal.
>>>>
>>> Are you saying they've dropped Xen? I'd be real surprised it that was the
>>> case... unless they've made a deal with VMware.
>>>[...]
 b) KVM is a virtualization
> package? I've never heard of it, and the only kvm I think of is like the switch
> I have at home for my keyboard and monitor between my personal system and my
> firewall.... <g>
>
>        mark
>
You will probably be hearing more about it now that Red Hat acquired
Qumranet.  In fact, your kernel probably has it baked-in already.
Please, do read the article linked in prior reply and/or Google for
that keyword.


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