Friday, March 7th, 2008
Don Marti interviews Andrea Arcangeli on KVM and hypervisor virtualization
Don Marti has a great podcast interview up with Andrea Arcangeli on KVM and the benefits of the kernel taking on the hypervisor role (rather than separating the hypervisor and rewriting all the supporting structures as Xen does). KVM has many advantages and very few downsides – I recommend hearing Andrea discuss its KVM features.
What’s also interesting is that KVM is primarily backed by Qumranet who focuses on selling virtualized desktop solutions, not on selling the hypervisor itself. However, the “desktop” virtualization technology is quickly being stabilized and ready for a server environment. I think Ubuntu (try the new beta) and Fedora are the furthest ahead if you want to try KVM. It’s a very synergistic model for the Linux community to grab hold of and turn into an advantageous feature.
You can listen to the podcast here:
http://www.linuxworld.com/podcasts/linux/2008/030608-linuxcast.html
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March 7th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Podcast Tip: Andrea Arcangeli on KVM and hypervisor virtualization | Virtualization.com said:
[...] us join Michael Dolan in pointing you to a great podcast on LinuxCast (LinuxWorld), featuring Don Marti interviewing [...]
March 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Leslie Satenstein said:
Very nice interview. I will be exploring KVM.