RedHat announces KVM in upcoming RHEL 5.4 and RHEV-H stateless hypervisor
Today RedHat announces that it will be including KVM as part of the upcoming RHEL 5.4 later this year as well as kvm unbundled from RHEL in a package known as RHEV-H. RHEV-H looks to be Redhat's answer to Vmware's ESXi with it's small footprint of under 128MB and exposes a libvirt interface to a management tier. Similar to ESXi, your servers can now boot RHEV-H from flash or network and immediately start servicing virtual machines.
RHEL 5.4 will also include management tools for KVM which includes Virtual manager for Servers and Virtual Manager for Desktops. The virtual manager for server will include features such as live migration, high availability, Image manager, snapshots among others. The management tools will allow management of both your host and hypervisor. For more see link below
http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/02/23/open-source-innovation-strikes-again
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Well, great, that's several
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 18:02 Anonymous (not verified)Well, great, that's several months I believe that KVM on a small footprint embedded linux ( maybe with uclibc and busybox) can be a good candidate for a bare metal hypervisor. RedHat do it. Adding libvirt, will be very powerful as this bare metal hypervisor will be managed using ovirt.
Now, one question even if it's not the good post. Since Qumrannet acquisition,there's no information about what Red Hat intends for Spice and Solidice (the Qumranet VDI tools). Will these technologies remain closed, or will RH open source them ?
Jacques Landru
Re: open sourcing SPICE
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 18:54 Haydn SolomonHey Jacques,
That's an interesting question. It sounds like RedHat intends on eventually open sourcing those technologies from qumranet ie. SPICE. See the video in the link below from VP Engineering of Redhat, Brian Stevens where he says they're "pretty far down the road of open sourcing the technology" referring to the SPICE technology.
http://www.press.redhat.com/2009/02/18/whats-on-brians-mind-qumranet-virtualization/
open sourcing of SPICE and SolidIce
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 06:01 obsider (not verified)There is actually a page on Fedora's wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Qumranet
Spice and SolidIce will both be open sourced. Only the time frame is unknown ( I think sooner rather than later though )
Very informative link. Never
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:41 Haydn SolomonVery Interesting. Never came across this page.
Thanks obsider
Just got off the phone w/ Red Hat. Give 'em some time.
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 18:11 Sum Yung Gai (not verified)I just got off the phone w/ Red Hat. Yes, they are working on a FLOSS, cross-platform port of RHEV that won't require Microsoft stuff anymore. It'll take maybe a year and a half, but the next version is slated to be fully FLOSSed. It's like with Netscape Directory Server. Just give them some time, they'll come through, they have before.
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