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oVirt relaunch on Nov 1-3 2011

The ovirt project for managing open source virtualization will be getting a second wind thanks to the Open Virtualization Alliance.  The project is scheduled for a relaunch in early November i

qed: The qemu enhanced disk format

There's a new qemu disk format that's still in very early developement called QED, which stands for QEMU enhanced disk format.  The RFC for this new disk disk format was first published Septem

Vinagre now supports SPICE: works on OSX too

In a recent blog post, redhat developer Christophe has managed to get a SPICE client running on Mac OSX by porting the most recent version of vinagre over to OSX.  This is still experimental b

KVM Forum 2011 Schedule Published

This year's annual KVM forum call for papers is now closed and a schedule is now published on the official wiki listing the talks over the two day conference.

Simple Bridged Networking with Virt-Manager using macvtap

If you've been using kvm for any length of time , you'll know that network configuration is not a trivial process.

kvm-kmod 3.0 release candidate is out

Today the first release candidate for the kvm kernel module based on the new linux 3.0 branch was released. There's nothing groundbreaking with this release.

How to resize your kvm virtual disk

In this post I'll walk through the procedure for resizing your virtual disk in place without having to create a copy of it or performing any kind of cloning.

qemu-0.14.1 Released

Last weekend qemu maintainers published the latest stable release of qemu featuring mostly bugfixes.

Virt-Manager improves SPICE support

The latest revision of virt-manager comes with improved support for SPICE enabled guests. In previous releases, this has been unstable as it was still in development.

KVM Forum 2011 scheduled for August 15-16

An announcement for KVM forum 2011 was recently published to various mailing lists so you can start planning if you intend to attend the conference this year.