In this article I will outline how to configure bridged networking to a tap interface on a Fedora KVM host as there seems to be a lack of good documentation on how to do this.

Today, kvm-65 was released, the main additions being support for IBM s390 and dedicated thread for handling IO on x86.

The following announcement was recently sent out on the developer mailing list announcing that registration is now open for the kvm forum 2008 to be held in Napa Valley in June.

I believe that KVM will be a significant player in the virtualization market. Here's why:

Birth of Virtualization

Running a KVM virtual machine on your desktop with the default screen output is fine if you're using it on your PC for desktop use.

Linux Kernels from 2.6.25 and later come with built in paravirtual network and block device drivers so that they can run as paravirtual guests on KVM host running on release 60 or later.

KVM-64 was released today featuring pci hotplug, paravirtual mmu and improvied PIT accuracy.

Today, the official website on the upcoming KVM forum 2008 at Marriot Napa Valley, California was released.

The highly rated Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) of Bombay along with Vmware in association with Netapp recently held a two day conference Convergence 08 on March 15th and 16th focusing on research activities in virtualization. The list of companies present included Intel, Vmware, Qumranet, Symantec, Netapp, NetXen among others.

The KVM project, maintained by Qumranet, recently released paravirtual network drivers for Windows XP/2k guest machines.