Reminiscent of what Firefox has done to the browser, Red Hat announced today its line-up of virtualization technologies, which is set to make a commodity of virtualization. It is worth the time to watch the short video from two of its executives: Red Hat’s Virtualization Strategy A key quote from the short video: “Fundamentally… a ...Read More
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When running a virtualized Windows Server with SMP (multi-processor) on hardware that has an AMD processor, you may notice a strange issue with timing. It is easy to recognize; open a Command Prompt, and ping an IP address (I ping-ed a local peer). You will get strange response times, such as -61000, 2100, etc. The ...Read More
Red Hat today announced that they will be joining the certification program for running Microsoft OS’s on Red Hat’s hypervisor, KVM. You can read more at this link. (additionally Microsoft will be joining Red Hat’s certification program to certify Hyper-V for running RHEL) Now, I personally don’t need this to know that KVM is the ...Read More
Its funny to see how such a small change in a complex system can make such a huge difference. A tiny little update to the Proxmox virtualization platform was pushed through yesterday. A new configuration option ‘args’ has been made available. You can now pass any KVM configuration command option to to your guests. You ...Read More
UPDATED: links at the bottom It has been YEARS in the making, but Sun has finally released a JRE browser plug-in with 64bit support. The first glimmer of hope I saw was in December when a current beta build worked OK on my 64bit Firefox. Now it is released for all. You can get it ...Read More
Open Nebula, an open source virtualization management system reached an important milestone today with the release of of Opennebula 1.2 (click for more info, however, it appears the new release has caused an increase in traffic, website is up and down today). It is good to see more work on Open platforms for supporting virtualization. ...Read More