[PLUG-Devel] next Thursday's dev meeting (fwd)

[Austin Godber]

OK, I forgot monday was a holiday so that gives me a little more time. I 
will spend the weekend putting and intro to virtualization with a KVM 
crash course.

Austin

der.hans wrote:
> Am 31. Aug, 2007 schw�tzte Austin Godber so:
> 
>> Well, realistically, I could split what I wanted to do up into parts.
>> Start off with an overview of virtualization and then a HOWTO on one of
>> the virtualization platforms.  Then I could follow up at other meetings
>> (DEV, EAST, WEST) with additional platforms.
> 
> That would be great, especially if you'd do west side presentations!
> 
>> I could do VMware, Xen, or OpenVZ to start with, maybe KVM.
> 
> Sounds great to me. I know a couple of people we should be able to pull in
> to attend specifically for some of those topics.
> 
>> That might be overall better so rather than tackling one monolithic
>> presentation ("to rule them all") I can just do it in parts.  I imagine
>> I can blab on for 30min to an hour on any of these topics, plus my
> 
> Cool. Yeah, we'd like 30 minuteish presentations, so we can handle the
> magazine format.
> 
>> normal pratfall routine ... wow, pratfall is in Thunderbird's dictionary.
> 
> But what about Prattfall, which describes the course of a well-known rock
> dj moving to a country station? :)
> 
>> Anyone have any requests?
> 
> An overview of the projects and comparisons would be great. HOWTOs on each
> of them would be awesome.
> 
> Are there any pre-requisites or other technologies that you think would be
> good to cover? For instance, do any of them depend on LVM or SRV records
> or building specilized kernels? Do they mask the work behind bridging the
> networking and talking to virtual hardware?
> 
> If there are other pieces of knowledge that will help we can try to find
> someone to cover those items as well.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
> 
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