Guest Posts

Memory OverCommit and Shared Memory pages

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Have you ever been in that meeting with the proprietary sales guy on one side and a bunch of Virtualization newbies on the other side ?
Usually the simplified discussion goes like this,
Customer : “We’re looking into virtualizing some of our servers , we already have some windows, and some Linux, Linux does Virtualization right [...]

19Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

The End of Paravirtualization?

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Alok Kataria , a Systems Programmer & Linux Kernel hacker at VMWare posted to the
Linux Kernel Mailing List last month about his experiences benchmarking VMware’s paravirtualization technique (VMI) and hardware MMU technologies (HWMMU) on VMware’s hypervisor.
Their test platform was a Dual Quad Core AMD Opteron 2384 2.7GHz (Shanghai C2), RVI capable running a [...]

1Oct2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

KVM News In Short

Over the past couple of weeks different new releases of KVM and related software saw the light . Virt-manager 0.8.0 was officially announced the most interesting new feature probably being the the Clone VM wizard but also a bunch of system tray icons for smooth desktop integration and CPU pinning support are very interesting.

21Aug2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Oracle Dumps Virtual Iron

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When
early march this year we talked about Oracle eying Virtual Iron we noted that Oracle needed to fill the VM Management gap that RedHat was leaving on Xen level by moving to KVM.
Turns out that that indeed was their main target, late last month Oracle announced their key virtualization strategy to [...]

17Aug2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Have a look at Convirture

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The guys over at
Convirture have a mission .. “Enterprise-grade management for OSS hypervisor & cloud platforms.”. They want to close the gap between the Command Line based Linux Admins and the CIO’s that want to have nice administration interface
Late june they released a Convirt 1.1 version which apart from some bug fixes and some [...]

13Aug2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Guest Post: “Fault tolerance a new key feature for virtualization”

Below is a an article originally published on the guest author’s blog. Who’s the author, you ask? Kevin Lawton! Bio: pioneer in x86 virtualization, serial entrepreneur, business and technology visionary, prolific idea creator, news and business book junkie.

6Aug2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

RHEL 5.4 will feature KVM

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July 1st marked the availability of the first Beta version of what will eventually become Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL) , for Virtualization.com readers the most important part of this upcoming release is with no doubt the full shift from Xen to KVM. When late last year
RedHat picked up Qumranet it [...]

6Jul2009 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued

AbiCloud from Abiquo

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Last month Abiquo announced the release of their “abiCloud”, an open source cloud computing platform for allowing companies to create and manage large, complex IT infrastructures (virtual servers, networks, applications, storage…) in a quick, simple and scalable way.
We had a chat with
Diego Mariño, Co-founder & CEO of
Abiquo , he told us that
one [...]

5May2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Oracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox

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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]

30Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

On the dangers of OVF

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Usually I`m all in favour of Open Standards that are supported by different parties, and the
Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) pretty much matches these requirements.
The last
Virtualbox has support for it, Simon is telling about it being part of the new
XenConvert v2 Tech Preview .
However,
Reuven wonders why it hasn’t [...]

17Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 7 comments | Continued

Updates on Xen

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When you have been in this industry for a couple of years, you might think that the Virtualization industry has stopped innovating, that there are no new awesome features coming out anymore.
Obviously they aren’t coming at the same pace as 5-10 years ago anymore, we aren’t surprised anymore when people add Virtualization [...]

16Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Floss Virtualization Doesn’t Care About Marketing …

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It cares about Quality and Frequent code releases. The Open Source community doesn’t
wait till the week before VMWorld to announe big news, they just code along happily and when the coding is done.. they release their software.
And there was plenty of it last couple of weeks. Here’s an overview ..

The New
Virt Manager 0.70 [...]

17Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued
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