[sllug-members]: New paper comparing OpenVZ and Xen virtualization

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Many of us run virtual machines, and this new paper comparing OpenVZ
and Xen virtualization may be of interest to some list members:

	Performance Evaluation of Virtualization Technologies for Server Consolidation
	Pradeep Padala, Xiaoyun Zhu, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, and Kang G. Shin
	11-Apr-2007
	http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2007/HPL-2007-59.pdf

Xen, like VMware, is a hypervisor-based system that supports multiple
O/Ses.  OpenVZ is O/S-based virtualization, like Solaris Zones.
OpenVZ requires both host and guest to be GNU/Linux systems.

See also:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openvz
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen

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