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Red Hat buys Qumranet
After seeing another virtualization.info feed in my inbox, I was going through it leisurely just glancing through the topics and I came across a news line which read “Red Hat acquires Qumranet, suddenly becoming a key virtualization player” and I sprang to my feet with surprise. Red Hat already had adopted KVM as the main [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )XEN – Very Popular
I’m drawing this conclusion looking at the number of hits my blog posts related to xen get. Infact the below three XEN related posts give contribute more than any other post – upto 25% of the total hits! Here are the hits to these posts as of today.
XEN vs KVM – 112 Hits
e1000e on linux-2.6 [...]
XEN vs KVM
I’ve been running some benchmarks on KVM and XEN of late and here are some views on it. Remember we are comparing XEN pv vs KVM. But there is nothing wrong in it, as we should choose the best of both to compare them truly.
XEN
XEN is extremely active even today even after Redhat adopting KVM, [...]
Red Hat adopts KVM
Its a great news for KVM fans that RedHat has adopted it as its default hypervisor in its RHEL. Its very difficult to say that KVM’s credibilities were the only reasons that influenced this decision. Looking deep inside, there are many factors..
RedHat has been a major contributor to XEN from early days. But in around [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )e1000e on linux-2.6-xen
I was frustrated the other day when linux-2.6.18-xen running off XEN did not detect my Intel Pro/1000 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet card, abbrivated as e1000e. The PCIe version of e1000 was not supported yet. I even decided to get a new e1000 PCI for its mistake.
I tried a lot in making it get detected. But [...]
Using qcow for your disk images
For the uninitiated, CoW stands for Copy on Write. Suppose you have to make two copies of something, creating a full copy could be expensive. So, what you do is, when you do a copy, just share the contents. When you modify one of the copies, only then a copy – Copy on Write. So, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )2.6.25 paravirt_ops enabled domU on XEN
I really really had a lot of trouble getting a domU up and running. Its very irritating because of certain crazy things about XEN.
Support for only 32 bit domU’s present in mainline as of this writing. I don’t know when will the 64bit support see any light.
The default ‘latest’ working domU provided by xen.org is [...]
