All Posts Tagged With: "kvm"

KVM 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 | Continued

KVM 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 [...]

28Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Linux Kernel 2.6.25 Released, KVM x86 Emulator Updated

Linus Torvalds has released the latest version of the “stable” Linux kernel, version 2.6.25, which includes changes to Wi-Fi support, virtualization, real-time scheduling and file systems.

21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

KVM-65 Released, Supports S390 Architecture

KVM-65 was released today. The most interesting feature in this release is support for the S/390 architecture, more specifically, the System z9 line of mainframes. On x86, the most interesting change is the separation of timer and I/O completion handling into a separate thread (these used to be serviced bythe same thread that executed vcpu 0). The change should result in improved responsiveness and better smp performance.

7Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

The Current State of Open Source Virtualization

We’ve started by looking back at a decade of Open Source virtualization, and in this second part of the series we’ll tackle today’s landscape (last updated in March 2008).

26Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 5 comments | Continued

Live Virtual Machine Migration Vulnerability

Anthony Liguori has a good summary of the
Blackhat paper by Jon Oberheide, Evan Cooke and Farnam Jahanian of the University of Michigan about Xensploit .

The idea of Xensploit is to use a Man in the Middle attack between 2 hosts performing a Live migration. The fundamental [...]

24Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Ubuntu Releases “Hardy Heron”, OS Version 8.04 In Beta

After four Alpha releases, Ubuntu has now released version 8.04 of the popular Operating System, code-named “Hardy Heron”. Apart from the boat load of new features, KVM is now officially maintained within the kernel. Also, libvirt and virt-manager have been integrated in Ubuntu.

21Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Looking Back At A Decade of Open Source Virtualization

A deep dive into the history of open source virtualization, its key players and forgotten protagonists from the early days.

10Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Podcast Tip: Andrea Arcangeli on KVM and hypervisor virtualization

A great podcast on LinuxCast (LinuxWorld), featuring Don Marti interviewing Andrea Arcangeli on the topic of KVM and the benefits of the kernel taking on the hypervisor role (rather than separating the hypervisor and rewriting all the supporting structures as Xen does).

7Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Ubuntu To Adopt KVM As Primary Virtualization Platform

Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to choose KVM over Xen as its virtualization solution.

14Feb2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued
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