Comments on: A quick look at paravirtualization support in VMware and Linux http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2007/07/07/a-quick-look-at-paravirtualization-support-in-vmware-and-linux/ by Mark Mayo Thu, 17 May 2012 00:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jason http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2007/07/07/a-quick-look-at-paravirtualization-support-in-vmware-and-linux/#comment-95232 Jason Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:25:25 +0000 http://www.vmunix.com/mark/blog/archives/2007/07/07/a-quick-look-at-paravirtualization-support-in-vmware-and-linux/#comment-95232 BEA has been doing something similar for a while with their Web Logic Server Virtual Edition. They have built something they call LiquidVM and it essentially strips the environment down to the point that the Application is actually perfroming VMware calls directly and not OS calls. This is an extermely thin shim that sits between the virtual hardware and the application and only provides the system calls necessary for the application to funtion. These system calls in turn produce a VMware call directly. Someone from VMware was in town a few weeks ago at the last VMware user's group meeting and he talked about this LiquidVM. It was a discussion about the new VMware Virtual Appliances and how these appliances were driving some changes to how a VM is built in order to make them as small and efficient as possible. Here's a link to a PDF on BEA's website that talks about it at a high level: http://www.bea.com/content/news_events/white_papers/BEA_WLS_Virtualization_ds.pdf At the user group meeting it sounds like there are companies looking at building these VM appliances with a very minimal operating system. I wonder if there is room out there for a SugarCRM liquidVM, or a WordPress minimal VM, etc. That would be cool. BEA has been doing something similar for a while with their Web Logic Server Virtual Edition. They have built something they call LiquidVM and it essentially strips the environment down to the point that the Application is actually perfroming VMware calls directly and not OS calls. This is an extermely thin shim that sits between the virtual hardware and the application and only provides the system calls necessary for the application to funtion. These system calls in turn produce a VMware call directly.

Someone from VMware was in town a few weeks ago at the last VMware user’s group meeting and he talked about this LiquidVM. It was a discussion about the new VMware Virtual Appliances and how these appliances were driving some changes to how a VM is built in order to make them as small and efficient as possible.

Here’s a link to a PDF on BEA’s website that talks about it at a high level:

http://www.bea.com/content/news_events/white_papers/BEA_WLS_Virtualization_ds.pdf

At the user group meeting it sounds like there are companies looking at building these VM appliances with a very minimal operating system. I wonder if there is room out there for a SugarCRM liquidVM, or a WordPress minimal VM, etc. That would be cool.

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