Virtualization has made a lot of progress during the last decade, primarily due to the development of myriad open-source virtual machine hypervisors. This progress has almost eliminated the barriers ...

Since 2007, when the Linux 2.6.20 kernel was released, Linux has had its own built-in hypervisor: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). What was nice about that was that it made virtualization easy if ...

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Virtualization has become a fundamental technology in the world of computing, allowing organizations and individuals alike to maximize their hardware resources, improve efficiency, and enhance ...

KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, is the up-and-coming enterprise virtualization contender. It’s lean, mean, fast, and runs unmodified guest operating systems with ease. In this crash course we’ll ...

IBM has surprised the industry by choosing Red Hat’s KVM server virtualization technology to run in IBM’s new cloud-for-rent (by which IBM hopes to take on the likes Amazon EC2). Although Red Hat ...

Red Hat is to build the KVM hypervisor into the next version of its Enterprise Linux offering, the company announced early this week. The inclusion of the virtual machine monitor in Red Hat Enterprise ...

Two major vendors are using KVM virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon’s popular EC2 service. The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing ...

On Sept. 1, Red Hat is expected to announce more about RHEL 5.4 and its KVM virtualization stack. It is being reported that Red Hat plans on launching its new virtualization portfolio at the beginning ...