Guest Posts

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 | 0 comments | Continued

Xen 3.2.1 Released

Keir Fraser has announced the availability of Xen 3.2.1 and 3.1.4, both bugfix releases in the Xen 3.1 and 3.2 series. The 3.2.1 release contains architectural improvements and new user-visible features.

27Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

VMware Certified Professionals Come At A Price

Excellent idea by Joe Foran over on the Server Virtualization blog: he took a look at the salary demands for VCPs 6 months ago according to job search aggregators Indeed and ITjobswatch.co.uk and has now analyzed the evolution of the salary demands today.

21Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Weekend Reading Tip: Virtualization in Comics

You may remember the Dilbert series on virtualization we featured here on Virtualization.com. The x86Virtualization bloggers went a little further and aggregated all comics they could find about the topic.

20Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Yahoo Needs Your Virtualization Advice

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Over at
his own blog, Jeremy Zawodny of
Yahoo fame needs your advice on what virtualization software to use.
He has both a Windows machine and a Linux desktop he wants to use to run other virtual machines on.
What would your advice be?
Xen, VirtualBox , Qemu , VMWare? Or something completely different?
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17Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication

Remus allows systems to transparently move to another physical machine in the event of a failure on the primary machine

16Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Qlusters Releases openQRM 3.5

Qlusters has released openQRM 3.5 to SourceForge.net. The 3.5 open source release succeeds release 3.1.4 and includes a set of new features based on input from various data centers and test/dev labs. Release 3.5 is available for download now.

9Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

The Present And Future of Xen

Over the past few months, a number of people have been vouching the idea that Xen’s development and adoption is slowing down because of the Citrix’ acquisition. Is it? A look at the present state and future of Xen.

7Apr2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Reading Tip: Andrew Kutz On the Future Of The Virtualization Ecosystem

Here’s a must-read blog post from Andrew Kutz over on O’Reilly’s On Lamp: Ubiquitous underpinnings and idyllic interfaces - The virtualization ecosystem of the (very near) future.

6Apr2008 | 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 | 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

Preinstalled Hypervisors And The Future of Operating Systems

Jay Lyman from the 451 Group wonders about the future of the Linux Distributions in the Virtualization arena.

5Mar2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

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