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Winter 2010 Presentations/VMs+Emulation

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Introduction
=Introduction=
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Is Virtualization what we need?
--What I'll be saying **************: <br />
The goal was to attempt to install a hypervisor, a piece of emulation software that's used to run guest operating systems, on an already existing hongkong machine for our koji build farm and determine whether or not this would be a viable developement solution. Some issues taken into consideration:
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What is Virtualization?
http://www.ok-labs.com/_assets/image_library/diagram-virtualization-stack-thumb.png [Picturepicture]  --What I'll be saying**************: <br /> Virtualization is technology for supporting execution of computer program code, from applications to entire operating systems, in a software-controlled environment. Such a Virtual Machine (VM) environment abstracts available system resources (memory, storage, CPU core(s), I/O, etc.) and presents them in a regular fashion, such that “guest” software cannot distinguish VM-based execution from running on bare physical hardware.
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