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How to Maximize virtio-net performance with vhost-net

Virtio-net paravirtual drivers provide you with better network performance than emulated drivers for your guests.

First release of oVirt scheduled for Jan 31

The first release of the RHEV-M upstream project, oVirt, is scheduled for the end of January in a few days time.

GSoC helps improve VMDK support in KVM

If you've ever struggled with converting a vmdk disk format to qemu's qcow format you might have better luck now.

Proxmox VE 2.0 Beta adds High Availability and KVM 1.0 packages

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), the linux Debian based distribution for managing KVM and Openvz, just released it's 2.0 Beta version adding High Availability support and packages based on qem

qemu 1.0 is here

qemu 1.0 was released today right on schedule.

qemu 1.x on the horizon

The next release of upstream qemu is scheduled for December 1, 2011 and will be tagged as version 1.0.

Get RHEV-M ( ovirt ) up and Running - oVirt Relaunch Day 1

The most interesting session on Day 1 of the oVirt relaunch was about getting the recently open sourced RHEV-M ( now known as oVirt ) up and running on your Desktop.

KVM Forum 2011 videos available online

Thanks to Redhat developer Richard Jones for his blog post pointing out this information.

oVirt relaunch on Nov 1-3 2011

The ovirt project for managing open source virtualization will be getting a second wind thanks to the Open Virtualization Alliance.  The project is scheduled for a relaunch in early November i

qed: The qemu enhanced disk format

There's a new qemu disk format that's still in very early developement called QED, which stands for QEMU enhanced disk format.  The RFC for this new disk disk format was first published Septem