[AG-TECH] The XEN of AG

[Christoph Willing <willing@itee.uq.edu.au>]

We've been doing some work on running an AG node using XEN. XEN is a  
machine virtualisation monitor, allowing a single machine to behave  
like multiple machines. The main advantage of running an AG node in  
this way is the ability keep the benefits of a multi-machine node,  
yet requiring only a single physical machine. In practice, this comes  
down to the separation of display and video capture functions. Anyone  
who has run a multi-camera single machine AG node will be aware of  
the useability nightmare in any except the smallest of meetings. This  
problem is completely solved by using XEN.

Full information is available at:
	http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/xenag/index.html



chris


Christoph Willing                           +61 7 3365 8350
QPSF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland