Experimental support for usb 3.0 has been added to kvm with the recent release of upstream qemu 1.1.

USB Redirection allows you to make usb devices attached to your client machine accessible to your remote KVM virtual machine via the network.

Most of the documentation I’ve written so far regarding running and testing SPICE have been doing so on Fedora. This is no surprise as SPICE is maintained by Red Hat and so is rpm based.

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