Within the last few days balloon driver code has been added to the GPL repository of the KVM windows guest driver.

There's a new feature called block migration available with the recently released qemu-kvm-0.12 version.

With the next release of Fedora 13 scheduled to be released in May 2010 the virtualization feature list is almost set in stone.

Kernel SamePage Merging is a recent linux kernel feature which combines identical memory pages from multiple processes into one copy on write memory region.

In case you missed it there’s a video demo of the upcoming Redhat RHEV-M virtualization management tool available from virtualiztion.tv.

KVM has a large array of command line options that literally take a manual to sift through. Every now and then some minor but useful options get added that’s worth a look.

Just recently I came across a message in the Virt-tools mailing list discussing RFC for the new cloning wizard interface in Virt-manager and they’ve already got some interface design screens

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.

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.