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Linux: Merging lguest
Andrew Morton [interview] sent out the latest lguest patches for review, noting that he intends to merge the code into the mainline kernel, "some concern was expressed over the lguest review status, so...
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Linux: KVM Adds Support For SMP Guests
A recently merged KVM patchset included support for guest SMP, various performance improvements, and suspend/resume fixes. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, "a full virtualization solution...
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Linux: lguest Merged
Rusty Russell's lguest was recently merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 Linux kernel. The merge comment describes the project, "lguest is a simple hypervisor for Linux on Linux. Unlike kvm it doesn't need...
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Linux: 2.6.23-rc1, Merge Window Closed
As expected, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.23-rc1 kernel two weeks after the release of 2.6.22, ending the merge window, "and it has a *ton* of changes as usual for the merge window, way too much for...
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Third Quarter FreeBSD Status Report
"This report covers FreeBSD related projects between July and October 2007," began the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report, posted by Brad Davis. He included a summary of the recent Google Summer of...
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Merge Window KVM Updates
Avi Kivitiy posted numerous KVM updates which Linus Torvalds merged into his mainline kernel source tree to be included in the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel. Avi summarized:"Highlights include in-kernel...
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Virtually Debugging
"Incidentally i was thinking about using KVM for automated testing. Important pieces of hardware should get an in-KVM simulator/emulator, that way developers who do not own that hardware can do...
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2.6.25 KVM Updates
Avi Kivity summarized the kvm patches bound for the 2.6.25 kernel:"Changes include performance and scalability improvements, completion of the portability work (though no new architectures are...
View ArticleQuote: The Big Item (In More Ways Than One)
"The big item (in more ways than one) for this release is the addition of s390 support. As it is not actually provided in the tarball, you will need to use git to fetch it. You will also need a...
View ArticleQuote: Today's New kvm Architecture
"Today's new kvm architecture is ia64, aka Itanium 2. Like s390, it is only provided in the git tree, not in the tarball. Windows and Linux guests are supported."
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