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 ...

Amazon Web Services is adding support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor within its Storage Gateway service. This allows ...

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If you've ever worked on coding projects, DevOps tasks, or even computing experiments, you've probably used virtual machines. From experimenting with wacky ideas to tinkering with different operating ...

IBM and Red Hat, Inc. announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with the KVM hypervisor on IBM Systems has been awarded Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+). The ...

Virtualization has been a major factor in the enterprise space for years; several virtualization providers have become billion-dollar companies. More recently, virtualization has started to become a ...

I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...

Red Hat has predicted that virtualisation will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. Red Hat is ...

Four months ago, almost nobody had heard of an open-source virtualization software called KVM. But that was then. The project, backed by a stealth-mode start-up called Qumranet, uses a technical and ...