On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:06 AM, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
redhat has been shouting about new virtualization initiatives,
including
mention ot somnething called Embedded Linux Hypervisor, oVirt. I don't
know what it all amounts to -- maybe just marketing noises?
No, basically RedHat switched Linux virtualization camps from Xen to
KVM (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki). This is probably a good
thing... KVM has always seemed like a cleaner hypervisor
implementation to me, and it has the huge advantage of already being
in the mainline kernel code. Ubuntu already went this direction
months ago, and it's interesting to see RedHat doing the same.
Really, the hypervisor doesn't matter. It's the management that sits
on top of it... and RedHat had already made that abstraction even with
Xen via libvirt. oVirt just keeps building on that base.
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