All Posts Tagged With: "kvm"

KVM News In Short

Over the past couple of weeks different new releases of KVM and related software saw the light . Virt-manager 0.8.0 was officially announced the most interesting new feature probably being the the Clone VM wizard but also a bunch of system tray icons for smooth desktop integration and CPU pinning support are very interesting.

21Aug2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

RHEL 5.4 will feature KVM

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July 1st marked the availability of the first Beta version of what will eventually become Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL) , for Virtualization.com readers the most important part of this upcoming release is with no doubt the full shift from Xen to KVM. When late last year
RedHat picked up Qumranet it [...]

6Jul2009 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued

Release: Karesansui 1.0

The Karesansui project has released version 1.0 of its open source virtualization management application.

29May2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

AbiCloud from Abiquo

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Last month Abiquo announced the release of their “abiCloud”, an open source cloud computing platform for allowing companies to create and manage large, complex IT infrastructures (virtual servers, networks, applications, storage…) in a quick, simple and scalable way.
We had a chat with
Diego MariÃ±o, Co-founder & CEO of
Abiquo , he told us that
one [...]

5May2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Floss Virtualization Doesn’t Care About Marketing …

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It cares about Quality and Frequent code releases. The Open Source community doesn’t
wait till the week before VMWorld to announe big news, they just code along happily and when the coding is done.. they release their software.
And there was plenty of it last couple of weeks. Here’s an overview ..

The New
Virt Manager 0.70 [...]

17Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 1 comment | Continued

Oracle To Buy Virtual Iron?

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The rumour is spreading , but so far no official feedback from Oracle.

Local Techwire reports that there are talks between Oracle and Virtual Iron ongoing and that Oracle is aiming at Virtual Iron to expand its server virtualization management platform.
According to Local Techwire Katherine Egbert, a Jefferies & Company analyst who closely follows Red Hat, [...]

8Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 4 comments | Continued

Karma Koala

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With all the fuzz around Cannes.. oh wait .. nothing happened there.. that was the most boring event ever wasn’t it … we forgot to focus on where the real action is happening …
When the 9.10 Ubuntu Release, Karmic Koala, hits the wire it will be Cloud Ready or Virtualization ready or whatever you want [...]

8Mar2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Red Hat announced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

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Today RedHat sent out 2 press releases obviously in an attempt to get Virtual visibility during VMWorld. Europe, The biggest news in those 2 press releases is the announcement of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor, or the RHEV . Red Hat announced their new strategy regarding to Virtualization which [...]

23Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

RedHat Moves Closer To Microsoft

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Earlier this week Red Hat and Microsoft announced they were going to work closer together , mainly to ensure Virtualization Interoperability. Both RedHat and Microsoft will join the other’s virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.
In short this means that Red Hat and Microsoft customers will have [...]

19Feb2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

CohesiveFT Adds KVM Format To Its Automated Elastic Server Platform

CohesiveFT today announced support to automate the deployment of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) servers via the Elastic Server web-based factory. Elastic Server is an automated â€œfactoryâ€ that allows IT professionals to assemble, deploy, and manage virtual servers using a simple point-and-click interface.

11Jan2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Open Source Virtualization Updates

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There is a lot going on in the different Open Source Virtualization projects. From KVM, over OpenVZ , to Xen.
First of all there is the
news that Anthony Liguori has included kvm support in the main Qemu development tree. In his blogpost Avi Kivity explains that with the KVM code being merged [...]

7Jan2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Virtuize Partners With RedHat

Virtuize, Inc announced yesterday that it has partnered with Redhat, Inc to deliver Redhatâ€™s Virtualization services to its customers. This expands Virtuize, Incâ€™s Open Source Virtualization portfolio.

6Dec2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued