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 ...

Xen and KVM offer distinct advantages, such as the ability to run multiple OSes simultaneously and gain access to network flexibility. These hypervisors are Linux-based and have vendor support for ...

A Linux KVM flaw on ARM64 can expose host kernel memory to guests and enable guest-to-host escape when nested virtualization is enabled.

The project, backed by a stealth-mode start-up called Qumranet, uses a technical and cultural approach that has quickly drawn powerful allies–including Red Hat and Linux founder Linus Torvalds. That ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for IT, today announced at the OpenStack conference in Vancouver, Canada that its hyperconverged ...

Red Hat has released the fourth update of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform, which the company is calling the foundation of its virtualization portfolio. The company announced the released ...

Virtualization has made a lot of progress during the last decade, primarily due to the development of myriad open-source virtual machine hypervisors. This progress has almost eliminated the barriers ...

Red Hat is to build the KVM hypervisor into the next version of its Enterprise Linux offering, the company announced early this week. The inclusion of the virtual machine monitor in Red Hat Enterprise ...

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 ...