The document provides an overview of open source virtualization technologies by Kris Buytaert. It discusses the history and evolution of virtualization starting from mainframes in the 1960s to modern virtualization with Xen, KVM, VirtualBox and other open source projects. It also compares different virtualization approaches like full, para and hardware virtualization. Lastly, it discusses popular virtualization platforms and management tools as well as the future of virtualization.