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  <title>HEPIX Virtualisation Working Group</title>
  <subtitle>2012-08-26</subtitle>
  <titleabbrev>HEPIX VWG</titleabbrev>

  <bookinfo>
    <abstract>
      <para>
	
      </para>
    </abstract>

    <date>2012-05-17</date>
    <author>
      <firstname>Virtualisation Working Group</firstname>
      <surname>HEPiX</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Owen</firstname>
      <surname>Synge</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Ulrich</firstname>
      <surname>Schwickerath</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Romain</firstname>
      <surname>Wartel</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Tony</firstname>
      <surname>Cass</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Andrea</firstname>
      <surname>Chierici</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Ian</firstname>
      <surname>Gable</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>David</firstname>
      <surname>Kelsey</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Ian</firstname>
      <surname>Collier</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Martin</firstname>
      <surname>Bly</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Michel</firstname>
      <surname>Jouvin</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Sebastien</firstname>
      <surname>Goasguen</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Keith</firstname>
      <surname>Chadwick</surname>
    </author>    
    <author>
      <firstname>Thomas</firstname>
      <surname>Finnern</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Mattieu</firstname>
      <surname>Puel</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Sander</firstname>
      <surname>Klous</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>John</firstname>
      <surname>Gordon</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Ewan</firstname>
      <surname>MacMahon</surname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <firstname>Jie</firstname>
      <surname>Tao</surname>
    </author>
  </bookinfo>

  <preface id="preface">
    <title>Preface</title>

    <para>&hepix; is a twice yearly conference made up from sites providing compute and 
    storage services for &hep;. &hepix; focusses on the compute, network and storage 
    infrastucture required for &hep; sites.
    </para>
    <section id="observations">
      <title>&vwg; Observations</title>
      <para>
        The spring 2009 &hepix; conference made the following observations:
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>&hep; will want consistent images across sites.</listitem>
          <listitem>The Grid is a homogeneous OS environment so requiring &hep; to coordinate OS upgrades across multiple experiments.</listitem>
          <listitem>The Grid will need to be shared with non &hep; community.</listitem>
          <listitem>&hep; experiments are very coupled to OS.</listitem>
          <listitem>Hardware is coupled to OS version.</listitem>          
          <listitem>Sites believe &vmi;'s are going to be the execution environment for &hep; jobs in the future.</listitem>
          <listitem>&chroot;, and &xen; based &vee; where already present at &hepix; sites.</listitem>  
        </itemizedlist>
        With these observations the &vwg; was formed.
      </para>
      <para>
        A new generation of &vee; such as &opennebula; and &nimbus; where already being developed.
      </para>
    </section>
    <section id="objectives">
      <title>&vwg; Objectives</title>
      <para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>Produce a framework to securely run &vmi;'s across multiple sites supporting &hep;.</listitem>
          <listitem>Sites need control over &vmi; selection.</listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </para>
      <para>
        With these objectives the &vwg; was created with Tony Cass as its leader.
      </para>
    </section>
  </preface>
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</book>