Virtualization Technology Conference In Beijing
Yesterday, We attended a VT conference hosted by Novell In Beijing. "Virtualization" is a hot topic nowadays. However, it really surprise me when I found there was no vacant seat in the hall. As the usual, after the boring opening remarks, Intel, IBM, Dell boast their solutions for Virtualization. They listed below as the advantage of Virtualization. ie., 1. Server consolidation. 2. Service migration and scalability. 3. Security. Unlike other companys, The engineer from AMD gave us a technical presentation. They showed their roadmap to support full Virtualiztion. Currently, Intel and AMD only support CPU Virtualization, and IO virtulization is not supported yet. The good news is Intel's VTD is on the way. And AMD promises to deliver virtulizated IO chipsets in 2009, nested MMU in 2007. Furthrer, muti-core and virtualization are like a inherent pal. They also demonstrated their desirable muti-core plan. Maybe, several years later, "everything is virtualized" is not only a advertisement, but also a must requirement by our customers.
