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 ...

Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualisation strategy. Launched on the ...

Are you looking for a reliable virtualization package to run multiple virtual machines that handle unmodified Linux or Windows images? Then look no further than your existing Linux configuration. It ...

The Linux Foundation today released details of a new hypervisor reference project for scenarios such as the “internet of things” and other embedded devices. It’s called Project ACRN and it’s made of ...

A year ago, the news that Xen virtualization support in the Linux kernel was just around the corner grabbed headlines. For the IT community — and for Grid technologists such as Katarzyna Keahey at the ...

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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 ...

The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon’s popular EC2 ...

I came away from InfoWorld’s Virtualization Executive Forum last week with two conclusions. First, server virtualization is definitely a big deal. This time last year, customers and ISVs still seemed ...

Due out this month, Fedora Core 5 will incorporate a more polished Xen hypervisor and support for Intel's Virtualization Technology (VT) and AMD's Pacifica virtualization extensions. Red Hat also said ...