Virtualization News Archives


572 Virtualization open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

KVM/Linux Nested Virtualization Support For ARM

The ARMv8.3 specification is adding support for nested virtualization and already kernel developers have been working to take use of this feature on future ARM CPUs within the Linux kernel.

9 January 2017 - ARMv8.3 Nested Virtualization - Add A Comment
Jailhouse v0.6 Hypervisor Released

A new release is now available of the Jailhouse 0.6 partitioning hypervisor that remains an out-of-tree option for Linux server admins.

9 January 2017 - Jailhouse 0.6 - 1 Comment
QEMU 2.8 Released

QEMU 2.8 is now available as a significant update to this important piece of the Linux virtualization stack.

21 December 2016 - QEMU 2.8 - Add A Comment
Bareflank Hypervisor Advances With VMM Isolation, Windows Support

Back during the summer we wrote about the Bareflank Hypervisor as a new open-source hypervisor written in C++11/14 and served as more of a hypervisor framework. Today the company behind that effort, Assured Information Security, announced a new version of Bareflank.

15 December 2016 - Bareflank - 2 Comments
Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 Released

The Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8 release was announced today as their first to be done off a six-month release cycle. There is a lot of ARM work in Xen 4.8 but also a lot of other enhancements.

7 December 2016 - Xen 4.8 - 10 Comments
Xen Orchestra 5.0 Released With Several New Features

While Xen 4.7 was released this week as the latest for this virtualization hypervisor, the independent Xen Orchestra software that provides a web interface to Xen Server is out with its version 5.0 milestone.

24 June 2016 - Xen Orchestra 5 - 1 Comment
Handling I/O Bursts With QEMU 2.6

The recent release of QEMU 2.6 has support for allowing guests to do bursts of I/O for a configurable amount of time, whereby the I/O level exceeds the normally allowed limits.

24 May 2016 - IO Bursts - Add A Comment
Xen Orchestra 4.12 Brings New VM Features

Version 4.12 of Xen Orchestra is now available, the open-source project built around XenServer. The Xen Orchestra 4.12 release brings new features and is one of the few remaining before focusing on Xen Orchestra 5.

18 January 2016 - Xen Orchestra 4.12 - Add A Comment
Using UEFI/OVMF In VMs With Virt-Manager

If you are just a casual user of the Linux virtualization stack with the open-source virt-manager, you might not know that for months they have already been supporting UEFI-based installations inside virtual machines.

2 January 2016 - Virt-Manager 1.2 - 4 Comments
Dell Is Going To Buy Out VMware's Parent, EMC

After rumors were swirling last week that Dell was planning to buy EMC, the parent company of VMWare, for $50 billion USD, today that information was firmed up and the purchase price is actually $67 billion -- making it one of the largest tech deals ever.

12 October 2015 - Dell Buying EMC - 7 Comments
VirtIO-GPU Gets Patches For 3D Rendering

Landing in the Linux 4.2 kernel was the new VirtIO GPU driver to be used with the open-source Linux virtualization stack as the first step towards having open-source GPU hardware acceleration in guest VMs. While that initial code drop didn't hook up any 3D rendering support, there's now patches for doing just that.

10 September 2015 - VirtIO-GPU - 10 Comments

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