All Posts Tagged With: "Xen"

Oracle Dumps Virtual Iron

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When
early march this year we talked about Oracle eying Virtual Iron we noted that Oracle needed to fill the VM Management gap that RedHat was leaving on Xen level by moving to KVM.
Turns out that that indeed was their main target, late last month Oracle announced their key virtualization strategy to [...]

17Aug2009 | 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

Pingbacks Not Suited For Dirty Minds: XenItalia.com

It’s always nice to get pingbacks on our blog posts, but sometimes they can be confusing, especially to people with a dirty mind.

2Jul2009 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Xen 3.4.1 Hits Release Candidate Stage

“Fifth release candidate is tagged as 3.4.1-rc5 in the usual place. Please test!”

29Jun2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 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

Xen 3.4 Released

Xen.org is pleased to announce the latest release of the Xen hypervisor (3.4), which is is referring to as “the open source industry standard for virtualization”.

19May2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Release: Unitrends 4.1 (Data Recovery Software)

Further expanding its OS, virtualization and application support, Unitrends today announced the latest version of its data recovery software with new support for the Windows Server 2008 family and the Novell OES family of products.

13May2009 | 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

Oracle Gets Sun xVM, Solaris Zones and Virtualbox

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When Oracle announced that it will be acquiring Sun it didn’t just impact the database market. It’s not just the question of what will happen with MySQL, OpenOffice and Java. The impact on the virtualization market is big as well.
At the moment Sun has a very confusing virtualization offering: they have different flavours, different tools [...]

30Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 3 comments | Continued

Updates on Xen

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When you have been in this industry for a couple of years, you might think that the Virtualization industry has stopped innovating, that there are no new awesome features coming out anymore.
Obviously they aren’t coming at the same pace as 5-10 years ago anymore, we aren’t surprised anymore when people add Virtualization [...]

16Apr2009 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | Continued

Citrix Project Satori Sees Light Of Day

Citrix Project Satori is the result of a collaborative agreement between XenSource and Microsoft, and was carried forward after XenSource was acquired by Citrix Systems.

25Mar2009 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | 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