Tag Archives: kvm

Virtualization: Xen and KVM

Posted by Herman on 6 August, 2008 11 comments

We use virtualization *a lot* in our infrastructure. The advantages are numerous but for sure it saves costs, makes management easier and improves security by isolating services on their own virtual machines (and you can make a very specific configuration for the service). Putting that aside we were moderately happy about Xen. We have been [...]

KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine for Linux

Posted by Herman on 12 December, 2006 1 comment

Seems like a much more natural implementation than Xen (which has a lot of black voodoo). Its not complete finished yet but it seems to be very promising, definitely something to keep an eye on. Link: http://kvm.sourceforge.net/