Virtualisation in Debian - Present and future
Channel: DebConf Videos
Date: 2017-11-24

by Jan Lübbe

At: DebConf8
http://penta.debconf.org/dc8_schedule/events/275.en.html
https://debconf8.debconf.org/

Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, VMWare, QEmu

There are now many virtualization and emulation packages available on
Debian. This talk will give an overview over the different approaches, their pros/cons and
current states. I will also show where each of them is heading and what that means
for Debian.

As an introduction i will explain the diffrent approaches to virtualization (system-/container-virtualization, hardware based, paravirtualization, emulation/recompilation) and how the packages use these.

The linux kernel now has explicit support for virtualization using the paravirt-ops interface.

The detailed part will focus on KVM, Xen and QEmu. These are probably the most popular free virtualization tools.

An interesting new project is libvirt, which will provide a consistent interface to different virtualization tools.

Ubuntu has recently choosen KVM as their main package and will ship it in 8.04 (Hardy Heron), Red Hat is working on forward porting Xen to a recent linux kernel. How will these influence Debian?

Room: Salon del mar
Scheduled start: 2008-08-15 15:00:00