OT: Request for speaker

[Matt Graham]

Vaughn Treude wrote:
>Austin,
>Thanks, I really appreciate your kind offer.  To be honest, I'm not 
>really sure I understand virtualization myself, and most of the audience 
>will not be Linux people.  Would it be possible to add a bit of an 
>introduction for beginners?  Is there a way we could briefly encapsulate 
>what virtualization is and what its benefits are?

Virtualization is a way to make one physical computer appear to be 2 (or more) 
virtual computers.  The presentation that Austin has available describes an 
approach that's useful for servers.  One big machine that appears to be 10 
smaller machines has obvious appeal to people who are selling web hosting or 
other kinds of hosting.  The approach that Austin has is not really intended 
for desktops/graphical apps, though.

If that doesn't appeal, I could probably put together something about LVM2 and 
demonstrate how to expand and move filesystems from disk to disk without 
causing any of the processes that are actively using files on those 
filesystems to barf.  And then go over the technical aspects of how they do 
that.  I don't have anything prepped and would have to write it from scratch, 
though.

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