4/20/2006
5:15pm-6:45pm
ECCR 150
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Xen, Paravirtualization and Solaris
Stuart J. Maybee
Sun Microsystems
Xen is a hypervisor that supports an idealized hardware platform onto which you
can run your favorite operating systems, each secure in their own virtual
machine environment. With Xen, you can run multiple operating systems on the
same server, and you can easily support each of your services in a different
virtual machine -- allowing for greater security and offering the ability to
move operating system instances from server to server as workload demands
change.
This talk will cover issues in preparing an operating system for execution in
a paravirtualized hypervisor environment such as that provided by Xen. Given
that Stu works at Sun Microsystems and his favorite operating system is the
Solaris OS, he'll talk about supporting it on Xen on x86-architecture platforms.
Stuart Maybee has been working on operating
system internals for more than 25 years. The last decade has been as a member
of various Solaris kernel teams at Sun Microsystems. Stu holds a degree in
Computer Science from the University of Colorado.
Co-sponsored by the Front Range UNIX Users Group (FRUUG).
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