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  <title>&vwg; Organisation</title>

  <partintro>
    <para>
      This part of the book summarises the organisation of the &vwg;.
    </para>
    <para>The &hepix; is an organisation and gathering of large predominately &hep; site
      administrators with the objective of sharing information and benefiting from each others experiences.</para>
    <para>The &vwg; was set up by &hepix; to investigate the implications use-cases and requirements of sites
      that where at the time expected to come from the relatively new technology of &vm; technology. The 
      group is chaired by Tony Cass and has met regularly and maintains a mailing list 
      <email>hepix-virtualisation@cern.ch</email> where the majority of the content of this document is extracted from.</para>
    <para>&vwg; generated documentation includes many details on:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>How to make &vmi; platform neutral.</listitem>
      <listitem>How to deploy site neutral images and contextualise them to a site such as batch queue integration.</listitem>
      <listitem>Meta data (and structure) required to describe an image for &hepix; needs, developed from multiple virtual
        machine management software.</listitem>
      <listitem>Software to mange images at a site.</listitem>
      <listitem>Requirements for image distribution across sites.</listitem>
    </itemizedlist>      
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