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Virtio SCSI
With the recent release of Fedora 17 comes a new KVM storage stack called virtio-scsi. Using this functionality is currently limited to command line operation. However there's already virtio-scsi...
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USB redirection over the network
USB Redirection allows you to make usb devices attached to your client machine accessible to your remote KVM virtual machine via the network. This qemu/kvm feature has been in development for some time...
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qemu-kvm 1.1 adds experimental support for usb 3.0
Experimental support for usb 3.0 has been added to kvm with the recent release of upstream qemu 1.1. Apart from higher throughput of usb 3.0 comes the nice effect of lower cpu resource usage due to...
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Using Open vswitch with Fedora 17
The recently released Fedora 17 comes with improved support for open vswitch. It includes packages for installing open vswitch as well as libvirt support for managing open vswitch under KVM. Open...
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PCI device assignment driver coming to Linux 3.6 with VFIO
The VFIO pci device assignment driver will be coming with the release of linux kernel 3.6. VFIO , or virtual function IO as it was originally called, will bring improved IO performance of pci devices...
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First Look: Virtual machine online disk snapshots coming to Fedora 18
In this post I will preview the new live disk snapshotting feature coming to Fedora 18. This is a very attractive feature that will give you the ability to take online snapshots of your virtual disks...
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Cloonix_kvm : Another userspace for KVM
Cloonix KVM is an alternative userspace for KVM designed specifically for simple realtime network topology management. The killer feature of Cloonix is a GUI WYSIWYG tool that allows you to drag and...
View ArticleQEMU 1.2.0 Released
Qemu 1.2.0 has just been released bringing many improvements to current features and many bugfixes. According to the announcement this was the shortest release cycle in qemu's history but it still...
View ArticleQemu 1.3 Released: qemu-kvm merge into qemu complete
Qemu 1.3 has been released and with it completes the merge of qemu-kvm into qemu. This means that you can now use "vanilla" qemu to run your kvm virtual machines. No more need to run the special...
View ArticleLatest open source windows virtio drivers adds support for Windows 8 guests
The most recent release of the open source virtio drivers released now adds support for windows 8 guests. These drivers are available in iso format that you mount in your KVM guest operating system....
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