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- Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux
- This solidifies my decisionI currently have a cluster of a dozen RHEL 5.3 Cluster Suite servers. They have been a nightmare to use, maintain, and keep working right. Red Hat's clustering software is horrendously buggy. I never have gotten virtualization to work properly with the whole mess.After...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- VMware's desktop moves
- That's all well and good Dan, but...The bigger picture isn't about VMware, a proprietary product.What is revving up to be the King of Hypervisors is:KVMYep.Take note all you VM'ers.You only need to try this Type 1 Hypervisor just once with Red Hat's Virt-Manager GUI Console to calibrate an understanding.In twenty-five...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
- Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform moves into beta testing
- It was a big day for Xen and a big day for the other open source virtualizatio hypervisor as well. Red Hat's KVM-based virtualization platform -- including a standalone hypervisor, virtualization manager for servers and virtualization manager for the desktop -- moved into beta testing on Tuesday....
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Citrix ships free XenServer to fend off Vmware, Hyper-V and KVM
- In a move designed to accelerate uptake of its open source virtualization platform, Citrix announced today worldwide availability of its free enterprise ready open source XenServer. The Ft Lauderdale company announced it February it would make XenServer software with hypervisor as well as features and functionality and...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- Red Hat's KVM play should give Citrix and VMware pause
- When I heard last week that Microsoft and Red Hat would cooperate on Xen virtualization, I knew the Linux leader's long awaited KVM strategy would be right around the corner. It's no secret that Red Hat has chosen KVM in the Linux kernel over Xen as...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Red Hat and Citrix ratchet up open source virtualization relevancy
- The open source hypervisor landscape got a lot more interesting today after the latest announcements from Red Hat and Citrix. Both were shots across the bow of VMware’s juggernaut, but Red Hat’s volley may have overshot and struck Xen.org in the stern. Citrix, the flag bearer for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-23
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the market
- Virtualization: The race is on to corner the marketYou're a bit wrong about RedHatKVM isn't just in the kernel distributed by RedHat it's been folded into the official Linux kernel so what RedHat is doing is extending and adding control software above what is already present in the standard kernel.In...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0
- Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0Re: How else are they supposed to measure it?How about a survey ?That's a good questionIt would seem that finding a way to allow a neutral, outside party to verify download counts would be a step in the right direction.Dan KHow else are they supposed to measure...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with Qumranet
- Red Hat draws its line in the virtual sand with QumranetKVM is solid and cleanA lot of it is marketing, but the technology is excellent and can dominate the virtual desktop. The issue comes down to VDI already being a cost effective product compared to stand alone desktops and...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- ProxMox 0.9
- ProxMox KVM/OpenVZ Virtualization Distro by Jason Perlow
- Image galleries 2008-06-24
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of wordsKVM eh...One has to wander why a company's website that develops a Linux VM runs on Microsoft IIS?http://www.qumranet.com/default.aspor is it only me who is wandering?RE: KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of wordsGee, What is the big deal? Can we not...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- KVM and Xen cofounders engage in war of words
- Xen cofounder and project lead Ian Pratt said predictions about his virtualization hypervisor’s demise to the newer kernel-based virtual machine KVM technology are unfounded, a by-product of his competitors’ imaginations. “There’s no evidence for it. The Xen community is alive and well. Xen is a true...
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Qumranet builds proprietary desktop on open source kernel
- At Demo07 Qumranet announced Solid ICE, a proprietary desktop virtualization system built on the kernel-based virtual machine KVM built into Linux 2.6.20. Qumranet also announced a Simple Protocol for Integrated Computing Environments SPICE, a connection protocol for linking devices within a virtualized environment. External interfaces to the system...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Xen vs. KVM: round 1 bell to ring soon
- Xen vs. KVM: round 1 bell to ring soonJudge Kimball rules Novell owns UNIX!Summary judgment...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-11
- Xen vs. KVM: round 1 bell to ring soon
- Industry executives are downplaying concerns about a growing schism between rival open source virtualization factions but a market battle between Xen and KVM appears increasingly likely, and imminent. At the San Francisco, Calif. conference this week, Qumranet, a Santa Clara, Calif-based commercial startup that funds KVM, told ZDNet that the company’s first...
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- Motorola, Qumranet Closer To Shipping Mobile, Virtual Linux Products
- Motorola is close to releasing its much anticipated, first Linux-based Razr2 V8 handset in the U.S, " said Christy M Wyatt, vice president of ecosystem and market development for Motorola during a LinuxWorld press conference. Showing off her own Linux Razr2, Wyatt was prevented by the company's communications...
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?some nuancesGenerally you are right -- different projects exists because they are from the different classes, implementing different approaches to virtualization.Still, there are some nuances:1. UML is para-virtualization in fact, have nothing in common with OpenVZ (aka partitioning, aka containers). Quick...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- The virtualization community has been hearing quite a bit about KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine since it was included in Version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel. It was interesting that this technology was included in the kernel relatively shorty after it first emerged while Xen still has not been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
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