Virtualization Daily

The OpenVZ project has announced virtualization support for the Power 64 chip.

“This turned out to be a simple procedure to port our code to the Power 64 processor, which demonstrates the portability of OpenVZ software,” said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. “Unlike hypervisor-based virtualization technology, OpenVZ is extremely easily portable across different architectures, since 95 percent of the code is platform-independent. With the port to Power, we’ve opened the door for another segment of the user community to benefit from our open source virtualization software.”

Hopefully this will eventually bring virtualization capabilities to Power PC based Macintosh hardware running Linux. Although, it currently looks like most of the effort is focused on the IBM System p Power based servers.