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Posts in the "Virtualization" Category 
Posts about Virtualization in all its forms.
The OpenSolaris 2008.05 demo
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on May 21, 2008 at 8:14 am
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I was invited to do a demo of OpenSolaris 2008.05 for the Intel sales team focused on Sun. This was scheduled as a part of their face-to-face day yesterday, and it was a lot of fun seeing the whole team. I started out with some true risk taking - I asked for a volunteer willing [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Some points to ponder on Virtualized performance
By Steven Thomsen (Intel) (5 posts) on May 20, 2008 at 10:05 am
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As I have been looking at some comparisons between native performance and virtualized performance, I have noticed some key points. To get the virtualized environment as close to the native mode as possible, you need to match the number of virtual CPUs (vCPUs). Also, you need to have the amount of memory available to [...]
Category: Virtualization
OpenSolaris Host - Virtual Box - Windows Guest
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on May 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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Having seen a great demo and presentation this week about the new VirtualBox 1.6 release, I have been enjoying trying out the various combinations to see which ones I like more. Today I tried out the Solaris version of VirtualBox on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 laptop. My laptop is a Sony VAIO, a Centrino Pro processor based system. [...]
Category: Graphics, Open Source, Virtualization
VirtualBox v1.6 - Open Source desktop virtualization
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on May 14, 2008 at 2:12 pm
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VirtualBox is a great desktop virtualization solution. It's free for personal use / evaluation, runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris or OpenSolaris, and supports a huge number of guest OS's. The user interface is really well tuned for a simple desktop user, and as UI's go, I think it has some really good context-aware help. I [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Time issues in a virtualized environment
By Steven Thomsen (Intel) (5 posts) on May 12, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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The inaccuracy for system time of VMs has been well documented. This behavior has been labeled time drift. Because of the time drift while executing, it is recommended to use NTP. Use LINUX to set up an NTP server within the network of the physical machine(s) being used. This will allow the VMs to sync [...]
Category: Virtualization
Virtualization is becoming hot (again)
By Steven Thomsen (Intel) (5 posts) on May 12, 2008 at 3:12 pm
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I am writing this as myself (stev) and not representing any company or entity. I used and promoted using a virtualized environment back in 2000. Working for another company (Oresis), who has since gone out of business (2002), I was able to shorten build times for the system from 8 1/4 hours to 2 1/2 [...]
Category: Virtualization
Keep It Simple!
By David Valdovinos (Intel) (1 posts) on May 11, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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These were more or less the words of wisdom that a well respected blog-vet offered as I was contemplating my initial post. Who am I? I started with Intel in 1984 as a software engineer and have since held a variety of technical, marketing, and program management roles. In my current role, I get to [...]
Category: Graphics, Intel SW Partner Program, Manageability, Mobility, Multicore, Virtualization
Dave, talking about OpenSolaris on Xeon
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on April 30, 2008 at 2:56 pm
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Thanks to my good friends in our SSG Marketing group, I did a 5 minute video on the work we're doing at Intel to enhance OpenSolaris for our processors. Here is the URL - http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/videos/home.aspx?fn=1490: Of course, none of this would be possible without the awesome work from very talented engineers. My thanks to [...]
Category: Graphics, Multicore, Open Source, Software Engineering, Virtualization
Solaris on Xeon - the Sun and Intel view
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on April 27, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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Recently I had the chance to sit with my colleagues from Sun and talk about the work we're doing on Solaris optimization on Intel's Xeon processors. The discussion is available online here: Sun and Intel webcast on Innovation This talk is MC'd by Julian Lukacs, from Sun's Market Development group which works with software developers to [...]
Category: Open Source, Virtualization
Reasonably reliable Suspend on OpenSolaris - today
By David Stewart (Intel) (83 posts) on April 25, 2008 at 11:02 am
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Last night, I decided to upgrade to the latest build of "Nevada", which is the project that OpenSolaris is based on. Build 87 (or SNV87 to the cognoscenti) has some cool features present, like improvements to memset(), memmove() and memcpy() to use the latest Intel processor instructions and some other good stuff. And [...]