Last week Proxmox released version 1.5 of their Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). The most noteable change from Proxmox VE 1.4 is support for several new linux kernel versions. The most recent kernel version 2.6.32 Drops support for OpenVZ virtualisation but adds support for the Linux Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) feature. KSM allows virtual machines (or any other processes) that have identical blocks(pages) of [...]
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Proxmox VE 1.5 Released with KSM Memory Sharing Feature
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Software, Virtualization
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VMware Announces the Availability of VMware Go
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Software, Virtualization
Yesterday VMware announced the free ”VMware Go” offering to go hand in had with it’s free ESXi offering. VMware Go simplifies setup of ESXi, phisical to virtual conversion and post migration management. VMware Go is part of a strategy gain momentum in the SMB market where virtualisation adoption has been slower. From the release: VMware Go™ Dramatically Simplifies [...]
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Proxmox VE 1.4 with New Storage Model Released
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Virtualization
Last week Proxmox released version 1.4 of their Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). Proxmox VE is a Debian based Linux distribution with a goal of allowing one to “Setup a complete virtual server infrastructure within 1 hour.” Proxmox VE enables the easy setup of a virtualization environment that includes centralized web-based management, snapshot based backup, [...]
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CentOS 5.4 Released with KVM Support
October 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Software
This week the CentOS team released CentOS 5.4. CentOS 5.4 is based on the freely available sources of RedHat Enterprise Linux. New in this release is support for the Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) which is gaining traction in major Linux distributions. KVM is the virtualization techlology that Ubuntu has chosen for it’s Amazon EC2 [...]
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