The Red Hat summit in Boston last week saw Red Hat open a beta of its Linux-based oVirt [1] hypervisor that weights in at less than 64MB. oVirt is based on the KVM, or kernel-based virtual machine, and supports both Linux and Microsoft's Windows operating systems as hosts. In addition, it also supports live migration to allow applications running on one virtual machine to be seamlessly migrated to other virtual machines without any downtime. Live migration can be done even if the target is on a separate physical server.
Overall, observers present at the Summit were impressed by Red Hat's virtualization strategy, which also involves building management tools that will eventually allow thousands of virtual machines to be created and managed on Red Hat's platform.
For more on Red Hat's virtualization strategy:
- check out this NetworkWorld article [2]
Links:
[1] http://ovirt.org/
[2] http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061908-red-hat-summit-hypervisor.html