Virtual Square: all the virtuality you always wanted but you were afraid to ask.

Virtual Square is a new perspective on the virtuality. There are several kind of virtual entities today: virtual machines, virtual networks, virtual users, virtual servers, etc.

Virtual square is a research project that has three main goals:

1. Integration: different virtual entities should communicate and interoperate.
2. Unification: different virtual entities should be regarded as instance of a wider concept of virtualization
3. Extension: the evidence of new ideas of virtualization should emerge from a more coprehensive, integrated, unified view of the problem.

Virtual square project use virtual entities as building blocks (e.g. Lego, K'nex). We are creating interconnection pieces to connect incompatible blocks and new blocks to allow users to build more creative kits.

A square is a meeting point (for virtual entities) where communication takes place. But you can also give to virtual square the mathematical meaning of virtual squared: you can further virtualize what is already virtual.

This "historical" site was the starting point of the project. It you are interested in the project's development, its tools, you need some tutorials, please visit our WIKI.

If you want to talk live with the Virtual Square development team you can join the #virtualsquare channel on freenode (the team is mainly located in Europe/Italy).

As you will see the project is very wide and it allows a range of different application. If you like this project please join us! We need bug reports, wiki authors for more tutorials and examples, application. Patches, new tools and ideas are welcomed, too.