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Virtualization for Developers

Autor: Michael Fischer

This two-part session of Michael Fischer covers the basics of virtualization for developers. Starting with a new virtual machine from the scratch, Michael further explains the basic technologies behind virtualization and demonstrates typical usage scenarios for developers."

Details about the content

Every good session starts with a sample. In part one of this this series about virtualization, Michael Fischer builds a virtual machine from scratch.

Based on this example Michael covers the basics of virtualization:

• What’s the difference between virtualization and emulation
• What’s the difference between a virtualization layer and hyper visor
• How do virtual disks and virtual networks work?

And he answers probably the most important question: What do I need this for?

Part II is dedicated to real world scenarios for developers:

• Converting existing physical machines into virtual machines
• Building test machines for developers and QA staff

The session will conclude by building a complete team of virtual machines which
emulate a high availability SQL database cluster.

The conference

Devfest is the largest english-speaking conference dealing with the Xbase programming languages Visual Objects and Vulcan.NET.