oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides an excellent KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization.
To find out more about features which were added in previous oVirt releases, check out the oVirt 3.3 release notes, oVirt 3.2 release notes and oVirt 3.1 release notes. For a general overview of oVirt, read the oVirt 3.0 feature guide and the about oVirt page.
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KVM (Kernel-mode Virtual Machine)
KVM (Kernel-mode Virtual Machine).
Kernel-mode Virtual Machines (http://kvm.qumranet.com/) is a virtualization platform that leverages the virtualization capabilities available with current microprocessors from both Intel™ and AMD™. For an overview of KVM, please see my 2008 Linuxfest Northwest presentation.
HowTos/KVM
For the impatient, here is our simple script. We’ll explain it afterwards. This is assuming that you’re on a 192.168.1.0/24 network with no DHCP server.
#!/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin
sudo brctl addbr br0
sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
sudo ifconfig br0 192.168.1.120 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
sudo route add -net 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 br0
sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1 br0
sudo tunctl -b -u john
sudo ifconfig tap0 up
sudo brctl addif br0 tap0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
sudo iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT
qemu-kvm ~/win2k.img -m 512 -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no
Xen – KVM – Linux – and the Community
KVM is a type-2 hypervisor built into the Linux kernel as a module and will ship with any Linux distribution moving forward as no work is required for the Linux distributions to add KVM. Having a virtualization platform built-in to the Linux kernel will be valuable to many customers looking for virtualization within a Linux based infrastructure; however these customers will lose the flexibility to run a bare-metal hypervisor, configure the hypervisor independent of the host operating system, and provide machine level security as a guest can bring down the operating system on KVM. Xen, on the other hand is a type-1 hypervisor built independent of any operating system and is a complete separate layer from the operating system and hardware and is seen by the community and customers as an Infrastructure Virtualization Platform to build their solutions upon.
Open Virtualization Alliance signs 200+ members
The rapid growth in OVA membership is a sign of KVM’s potential in emerging markets and the cloud, where open virtualization is poised to be a key technology that can help reduce costs, increase virtual machine density, and improve performance and scalability. In fact, according to a recent member survey, more than 50 percent of OVA members are focused on cloud computing.
via Open Virtualization Alliance signs 200+ members – TechSpot News.
How to Convert a KVM to a VDI
KVM is a bare metal virtualization software use to run several operating system on the same hardware. VDI is the file type used in VirtualBox, Sun Microsystems’ desktop virtualization product. A desktop virtualization product allows you to run an operating system in a window independent from your main operating system. VirtualBox and KVM use different file formats to store the virtual machine and transferring a KVM virtual machine to VirtualBox requires an indirect approach.