http://linuxvirtualization.com/ en-us 40 Linux Virtualization comments <p>The <span class="caps">KVM</span> project website is now up. For those interested in more details see the <a href="http://www.qumranet.com/wp/kvm_wp.pdf">KVM Whitepaper</a>.</p> <p>One would wonder if hypervisors are losing their relevancy. With <span class="caps">UML</span> already in the kernel and <span class="caps">KVM</span> hopefully on the way the kernel already has the native ability to create a &#8220;virtual machine&#8221; (at least in some sense of the word). The argument against maintaining <span class="caps">NUMA</span>, SMP, multi-core support, etc. in both a hypervisor and the kernel makes a lot of sense to me.</p> <p><span class="caps">KVM</span> is now included in Andrew Morton&#8217;s -mm kernels, see <a href="http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc5/2.6.19-rc5-mm1/announce.txt">announcement for 2.6.19-rc5-mm1</a>.</p> Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:57:00 EST <a href="/articles/2006/11/11/more-about-kvm">More about KVM</a> <a href="/articles/2006/11/11/more-about-kvm">More about KVM</a>