Linux To Receive Virtualisation Technology?

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KVM Virtualisation technology has received a ringing endorsement from Red Hat. So much, in fact, that they are preparing it for inclusion into Fedora 7. Care to comment? Feel free to do so below...

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[equk]

I thought linux already had a number of virtual machines? VMWare, Qemu etc

The article looks interesting as it is kernel based virtualization and also is free.

Could be good for Virtual Private Server based hosting companies, altho there are already solutions out there.

Hopefully this will be an improvement tho, altho being kernel based would have its drawbacks

It is only based on loadable modules tho, so I'm not really sure what advances it provides

 

[equk]

KVM Virtualization technology has received a ringing endorsement from Red Hat. So much, in fact, that they are preparing it for inclusion into Fedora 7. Care to comment? Feel free to do so below...

Not sure about the Redhat endorsement

It says on the site it will be included in kernel 2.6.20, so anything with that kernel or the later kernels will have it anyway?

The kernel component of KVM is included in mainline Linux, as of 2.6.20

I was just looking thru the site aswell, server things:

For server workloads, an optimized version of the MMU virtualization is needed. This is currently in progress.

It also seems to use intel VT which is amazingly fast on parallels desktop in osx