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New 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 | ContinuedVMware pushing its standard virtualization interface in Linux kernel
Fraser Campbell tracked VMware effort to introduce several patches in Linux kernel to make it compliant to what it’s called Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), or Paravirtualization API 2.0
The Fraser article features an interesting comment from Zachary Amsden:
Zach was asked “Why can’t vmware use the Xen interface instead?” and he responded: “We could. But it is our opinion [...]
