Today redhat announces the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta featuring KVM-based virtualization alongside existing Xen-based virtualization.

Fedora 11 was released in June featuring the new virt-manager 0.7 and I have to say that I think this is the first useful version.

A couple of days ago kvm-87 was released featuring bug fixes, performance improvements, a preview of irqfd and new support for http protocol using curl version 6.

Last week I noticed a message on the emerging technologies management tools mailing list announcing a release of a project called libguestfs developed by Richard M. Jones of Redhat.

Since kvm-86, there's a handy new monitor command which allows you to set up host to guest port redirection on the fly.

Today the latest package of the kvm-kmod kernel module was released based on the kernel 2.6.30 series. This release contains code from linux kernel 2.6.30-rc8 but can run on older kernels.

Today, qemu-kvm-0.10.5 was released from the stable branch qemu-kvm. As expected, it includes mostly bug fixes that are listed below.

Today the latest package of the kvm-kmod kernel module was released based on the kernel 2.6.30 series. This release contains code from linux kernel 2.6.30-rc6 but can run on older kernels.

Today, kvm-86 was released featuring many qcow2 and live migration fixes.

Since the release of kvm-85, new support for vnc access lists and various authentication mechanisms have been added.