Red Hat Formally Announces 'Integrated Virtualization'

Posted by Fraser Campbell Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:10:00 GMT

Redhat today announced it’s “Integrated Virtualization” strategy. In a nutshell Redhat is “working with partners such as AMD, Intel, Network Appliance and XenSource to simplify virtualization deployment for customers”.

Much work is going into ensuring tight integration of Redhat Linux with new chips featuring Intel VT and AMD Pacifica. The particular focus (at least from the news release) appears to be getting Xen fully integrated.

It will be interesting to see where Xen development heads in the next 6 months, there are many things afoot:

changing xend to use xml-rpc instead of s-expressions (yay!)
work on simplified virtualization library (livirt) by IBM and Redhat employees
Xensource’s eventual release of Optimizer and/or their focus on OEM integration with Redhat, SuSE and others

Read original press release here.

Also see the newly announced site openvirtualization.com (currently a redirect to Redhat) hopefully this site develops into a great source of information.