Basically Red Hat wants to shift Virtualization mindshare to it's own open source VM (oVirt). At this point oVirt is still in it's infancy so it will take time before it can compete with Xen and our Vmware.
(http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/29271 ) (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-red-hat-summit-hypervisor.html?page=1 ) (http://www.virtualization.info ) I was at the Burton group Catalyst conference and Redhat was mentioned briefly at a few virtualization presentations. The big thing now seems to be VM security and management. There is a google whitepaper that shows that the major VM's can be compromised (http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf ). Now he did not cover hardware based VM's so this is a different story since the attack surface is very limited. ----- Original Message ---- From: James G. Sack (jim) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: kplug-LIST <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:06:28 AM Subject: redhat "strategic virtualization initiatives" 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? But they do seem to be getting some column-inches, for example: ==> warning: ad/content >= 5 :-( http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=9DF6B6F6-17A4-0F78-31C5742516685F52 Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
