LWN: Some KVM developments
Posted by Fraser Campbell Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:32:00 GMT
KVM is definitely generating some buzz these days. Soon it will be in the stock Linux kernel (2.6.20), it is gaining paravirtualization features and in general it seems like a nice, clean, simple solution.
Who would have predicted that the first user of the paravirt_ops kernel functionality is likely not to be Xen or even VMware, it will almost certainly be KVM (dozens of non-mainline patches excepted of course).
LWN posted an good article on these recent developments, author Jonathon Corbet states:
Perhaps the most interesting outcome of all this, however, is how KVM is gaining momentum as the virtualization approach of choice – at least for contemporary and future hardware. One can almost see the interest in Xen (for example) fading; KVM comes across as a much simpler, more maintainable way to support full and paravirtualization. The community seems to be converging on KVM as the low-level virtualization interface; commercial vendors of higher-level products will want to adapt to this interface if they want their products to be supported in the future.
Interesting indeed. LWN’s article includes a fair amount of technical details, it’s definitely worth a read over at http://lwn.net/Articles/216794/.
