[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] TONIGHT: April PLUG Advanced Topics: FreeBSD Virtualization Options

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics Meeting Announcement

Who: Michael Dexter
What: FreeBSD Virtualization Options
Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue, Portland (Left Entrance)
When: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom

Learn about the latest developments in FreeBSD virtualization including 
EC2 and Hyper-V guest support, Xen Dom0 and DomU support and bhyve, the 
native FreeBSD Hypervisor.

Learn about the latest developments in FreeBSD virtualization including 
EC2 and Hyper-V guest support, Xen Dom0 and DomU support and bhyve, the 
native FreeBSD Hypervisor.

FreeBSD invented the modern Unix container with jail(8) in the year 2000 
and today operates as an EC2 and Hyper-V guest, Xen Dom0 and DomU and 
now includes bhyve, the native FreeBSD Hypervisor. Michael wrote his 
first jail(8) management system in 2005 and has since operated 
NetBSD/Xen in production and was the first community user of bhyve, the 
FreeBSD hypervisor introduced with FreeBSD 10.0. bhyve is a modern, 
emulation-free hypervisor that relies on the Extended Page Table feature 
found in modern Intel and AMD CPUs. bhyve provides bare-metal 
performance for Unix virtual machines and an in some cases will in fact 
provide better than bare-metal performance.

FreeBSD Xen Dom0 support has been many years in the making but is 
beginning to see the light of day. Michael is working with Xen developer 
Roger Pau Monné and aims to have a real-world report on the status of 
this unique effort.

Combined, these technologies are establishing FreeBSD as an emerging 
first class virtualization platform with an increasing adoption by 
"cloud" service providers.


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Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 915 SE Hawthorne Blvd. after the meeting.

Rideshares Available

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See you there!

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer