Involved Projects and Packages
Spice agent for Linux guests offering the following features:
Features:
* Client mouse mode (no need to grab mouse by client, no mouse lag)
this is handled by the daemon by feeding mouse events into the kernel
via uinput. This will only work if the active X-session is running a
spice-vdagent process so that its resolution can be determined.
* Automatic adjustment of the X-session resolution to the client resolution
* Support of copy and paste (text and images) between the active X-session
and the client
supermin is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny
appliances (similar to virtual machines), usually around 100KB in size,
which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when
you need to boot one of them.
NOTE: Automatically created during Factory devel project migration by admin.
Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for
connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC widget to provide
the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC server details.
NOTE: Automatically created during Factory devel project migration by admin.
Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of
performance and resource isolation.
This package contains the Xen Hypervisor. (tm)
Modern computers are sufficiently powerful to use virtualization to
present the illusion of many smaller virtual machines (VMs), each
running a separate operating system instance. Successful partitioning
of a machine to support the concurrent execution of multiple operating
systems poses several challenges. Firstly, virtual machines must be
isolated from one another: It is not acceptable for the execution of
one to adversely affect the performance of another. This is
particularly true when virtual machines are owned by mutually
untrusting users. Secondly, it is necessary to support a variety of
different operating systems to accommodate the heterogeneity of popular
applications. Thirdly, the performance overhead introduced by
virtualization should be small.
Xen uses a technique called paravirtualization: The guest OS is
modified, mainly to enhance performance.
The Xen hypervisor (microkernel) does not provide device drivers for
your hardware (except for CPU and memory). This job is left to the
kernel that's running in domain 0. Thus the domain 0 kernel is
privileged; it has full hardware access. It's started immediately after
Xen starts up. Other domains have no access to the hardware; instead
they use virtual interfaces that are provided by Xen (with the help of
the domain 0 kernel).
In addition to this package you need to install the kernel-xen, xen-libs
and xen-tools packages to use Xen. Xen version 3 and newer also supports
running unmodified guests using full virtualization, if appropriate hardware
is present.
[Hypervisor is a trademark of IBM]
Maintenance devel / staging area for virtualization packages in openSUSE 12.1
Packages being prepared for inclusion in the main Virtualization project are staged here.
QEMU is a quick emulator, using dynamic translation (TCG). In support of virtualization, it also serves as a frontend for KVM and as a backend for Xen device emulation.
Note that this package is produced using a Git based workflow. Please refer to README.PACKAGING before making modifications.
Tests and supporting packages related to testing Virtualization infrastructure.
