All Posts Tagged With: "kvm"
openQRM 4.1 Released With Support for KVM
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Matt just sent mail to let us know that the openQRM team has released a fresh openQRM 4.1
After the initial 4.0 release of the “next generation” of openQRM, re-written in PHP, the new release comes with some nice new features. the most important one being the addition of . support for KVM-Virtualization And [...]
RedHat Picks Up Qumranet
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According to Globes, RedHat has acquired Qumranet (confirmed via press release)
“Redhat announced its acquisition of Israeli virtualization start-up Qumranet Inc. for about $100 million, ending a long period of rumors. This is Red Hat’s first acquisition in Israel, and it will turn the Linux software company into a market leader in virtualization. Qumranet [...]
IBM launches the open-ovf project
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Scott Moser from IBM’s Systems Technology Group has released the first version of the open-ovf project. OVF is a standard packaging format for virtual machines and software appliances. The open-ovf project is seeking contributors and users to help establish OVF as a transparent and platform-neutral method for packaging virtual machine images.
The goal [...]
Qumranet Announces Craig Bauman as Vice President of Sales and Channel Chief
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Qumranet, with its hosted desktop virtualization product, Solid ICE, announced that Craig Bauman has joined the company as the vice president of sales and channels. Bauman will be responsible for launching the Qumranet Partner Program and leading the sales organization through its recent grow th stage.
Buaman joins Qumranet from TriActive. Prior to joining [...]
Virtualization Workloads, a comparative study in Open Source environments
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At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Benoit de Lingeris and his team from Revolution Linux presented their paper “Virtualization of Linux Server, a comparative study“, mostly the work of Fernando L. Camargos in pursuit of his Masters degree in Computer Science.
They looked at VirtualBox, Xen, KVM, OpenVZ, LinuxVServer and KQemu in an 64bit mode for [...]
Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 2/2)
We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the second part of this exclusive video interview right here.
18Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 0 comments | ContinuedNew Linux Kernel: More Support for Virtualization
Nearly three months in the making, the new Linux kernel (version 2.6.26) announced by Linus Torvalds through a mailing list, boasts read-only bind mounts, “big-iron” KVM ports, USB webcam support, 802.11s mesh WiFi, built-in support for remote kernel debugging, and a host of embedded architecture improvements, among other enhancements.
16Jul2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedRich Wolski on Eucalyptus: Open Source Cloud Computing (Video Interview - 1/2)
We have sent our enthusiastic cloud computing koala Toon Vanagt to San Francisco to interview Eucalyptus Director Rich Wolski at the O’Reilly Velocity conference. You can find the first part of this exclusive video interview right here (we’ll post the second part tomorrow).
8Jul2008 | Toon Vanagt | 4 comments | ContinuedRed Hat Unveils Virtualization Strategy At Boston Summit
Red Hat unveils its virtualization strategy with a new embeddable hypervisor and management console, it announced at the Red Hat Summit conference in Boston.
19Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 2 comments | ContinuedKVM vs Xen, Who Will Win The Fight?
As KVM is gaining more and more popularity by being adopted in several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, the battle between different virtualization technologies continues to be interesting. Meanwhile, Ian Pratt and Benny Schnaider are using strong words against each other.
9May2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM Sponsor Qumranet Ships Solid ICE
KVM sponsor Qumranet launched (PDF) its long awaited desktop virtualization solution yesterday, just weeks before Citrix launches XenDesktop. Solid ICE (Independent Computing Environment) is a hosted desktop virtualization product that promises desktop-like performance with support for multiple monitors, bi-directional audio and video, streaming video and USB support.
1May2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedKVM Forum 2008 Schedule Has Been Announced
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The schedule for the upcoming KVM 2008 forum in Nappa, CA is up.
Qumranet, as the main KVM sponsor, is inviting all KVM developers to their second KVM summit on June 10 to 13th at the Marriot Napa Valley, California.
Many of the world’s top kernel developers will gather to discuss the state of [...]
