The Oracle VM presentation for the PSOUG went very well.  We provided an overview of virtualization, the differences between different types of hypervisors and virtualization implementations, then dug deeper into Oracle's Xen-based solution.

The attendees were curious about virtualization fundamentals to begin with, but as we moved into the Oracle VM solution they had many questions regarding supported products, advantages to using VM in an Oracle environment, and costs.

We closed the last hour with a few live demonstrations from our office lab.  We created a Linux VM both from the Oracle GUI and the command line, then spent the rest of the time on the command line performing a few cool Xen tricks.  We cloned a VM, performed a live migration, and even mounted the VHD (virtual hard drive) of a stopped VM as a filesystem.  This is a super-slick way to access the filesystem of a down virtual for a granular restore or any other task requiring file-level access.

In all, I think the folks attending got a lot out of the presentation and based on the numer of business cards exchanged, I think we started more than one future conversation surrounding Oracle VM.

A big thanks to everyone at PSOUG for hosting and inviting us to share.