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Ross Chevalier, CTO, Novell, Canada
XEN is all about virtualization. It’s a system that’s designed to help in the virtualization process of multiple types of operating systems, on multiple types of operating systems. Ross Chevalier’s talk at FSOSS/07 about the XEN project was all about assessing the current state of the project, and also giving a brief overview of what virtualization is, and how to use it.
Virtualization is taking one operating system, and making it run within another operating system. The advantage to this is that you can have one powerful system, and split it up into many virtual instances that each manage a particular task, or set of tasks. On average, only 10% of a servers resources are being utilized, so virtualization allows a user to take greater advantage of the other 90%.
