very rough bof notes.

Virtualization BOF at GGF18  notes for GFSG
BOF chaired by Franco Travostino, prepared together with Yaron Haviv
from Voltaire company.

number of participants: 35-45 about 15 active people

- agenda bashing
- Franco gives intro slides, use cases, context inside and outside GGF

- Cees de Laat presented 2 usecases
Q from room: how to capture state from io devices and interconnect.

- Yaron Haviv presentation.
Q DCML, SML, why they not successful and we here would be.
A was more focused at server side
A from Franco, leverage both
Q EGA modelling leveraging here
A was not notion on how to describe.
Q How does this relate to DCML
A DCML died out?
A this approach tries top down in stead of bottom up

-  Ron Gehrig from DTMF presentation
no questions

- open discussion led by Franco
Franco poses two workitems (are grid specs neutral with respect to vm
plus IO and enhance specs to drive new features)
Some support for a new group from OGSA person.

Argument: MPI difficult or impossible to migrate

David Martin:
- description of resources and terms
- DMTF and OGF

Q virtualisation in different directions

Scope needs to be defined
Different layers of virtualizations

Next steps:
- continue through email
- set of milestones
- create maillist and workspace
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