- Prediction: Citrix will drop the open source Xen hypervisor for Hyper-V. The rest of the open source world drops Xen for KVM. – Lengthy speculation about the future of Xen now that Hyper-V is out. If this turns out to be correct, I think it leaves Sun in a particularly awkward spot, given that the work they’ve done on integrating Xen with Solaris. (Seen at virtualization.info and vinternals.)
Archive for the ‘kvm’ tag
Monday 6/30/2008 Links
What I Think You Ought to Read, 6/20/2008
- Red Hat adopts KVM: what happens to Xen now? – I work in a VMware ESX shop right now (other than all those Solaris Zones and FreeBSD Jails and OpenVZ VEs, that is) – no Xen or KVM. However, given the serious pain in the butt that timekeeping is in Linux guests on ESX, I’ve been sorely tempted to look at running Xen for some Linux virtuals under CentOS 5, in the hopes that this isn’t a problem there. Guess I’ll hold off on that now. (Yeah, I’ve read all the docs, and Linux time sync generally sorta kinda usually works until it doesn’t – it just shouldn’t be that much of a flail.)
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet and VMware – A Match Made in Heaven – Lengthy and interesting article on 10GbE, VMware, consolidation and datacenter Ethernet – dismissive of Infiniband’s chances of becoming the One True Network Fabric.
- Blocks and Files: Between a server or storage array place – More commentary on Chuck’s commentary on HP’s flash announcement. Quote: “Another aspect of this is that a flash SSD cache for a servers needs to plug in to the server’s bus and the supplier doesn’t have to worry about getting a Fibre Channel interface onto flash SSDs which is needed to plug them into existing Fibre Channel slots in a storage array. STEC has an effective monopoly on this (with EMC having its own mini-monopoly because of its exclusivity deal with STEC which ends in a few months) until Emulex’ SSD-tweaked SATA-to-FC bridge chip becomes available at the end of the year. ” Which is probably why NetApp recently announced this instead of flash drives.