xVM and Zones
This time I did the techtalk on a non-conventional place: on the lunch room... I used doodle to let people vote on the best schedule for them. Turned out that the most voted hour was lunch time :)
So I bought pizzas and since the lunchroom requires no formal permission to bring food, I decided to give the techtalk in it... btw this unusual place to give talks was really convenient to attract people's attention: sure, there were about 10 people, but almost 20 around were seeing us, in fact, some of them approached to ask what was all about :) Felt like googlish (pearhaps sunish too?) work environment: fun, food and tech together :)
Here you can see a proud owner of a new Sun T-shirt :)
Jokes aside, most of the audience was aware about virtualization idea but few of them tried out XEN nor xVM. I stressed the fact that xVM is not just a XEN fork or port, it's much more thanks to other solaris technologies around it: ZFS, for instance, and DTrace xpv::: provider being one of the most interesting teches around xVM.
Regarding Zones, some basics were explained while I encouraged people to try out Indiana as it comes out soon, or give it a try to RC2 for the impatients (or those who want to hunt and report bugs) :)
