[vox] Swag and tonight's Xen Virtualization talk

[Luke Crawford]

To the first 10 people that ask (in person)  I will be giving away a Xen 
virtual server with 32MB ram.  (if 5 or fewer people ask, they will be 64M)
In all other ways, these will be identical to my 64MB images. 
Half off if you want anything bigger.  See  http://prgmr.com/xen/  for 
details of available plans.

I will also be going over some of the technical details of how to run 
your own Xen Dom0, and why you should use a standard virtualization 
product rather than a proprietary one, and why  Xen is superior to fancy 
chroot systems like linux Vservers or FreeBSD Jails (before I started 
selling Xen servers, I tried to sell FreeBSD jails.  Bad things happened, 
and I ended up refunding all my customers.)  The fancy Chroot systems are 
great for some things, but not when you have more than one customer per 
kernel.

I will also give you my standard cynical rant about single-sourcing 
anything.  I know it's obvious, but I've worked to many places where the 
boss has decided "Provider X is really big so they will never go down. 
Let us buy all our stuff from Provider X at a discount"  Then watched 
provider X screw us, because they know it will be quite expensive for us 
to shift away from provider X.


I will say a few words about the jailtime.org, xen-get.org and xen-tools 
projects, as I am trying to become involved in two of those projects, and 
I pull my default images from the third.