According to an interview a zdnet interview with RedHat CTO Brian Stevens, Fedora 7 will include KVM. This is a major step for the relatively new open source virtualization technology. KVM was recently officially added to the Linux kernel.

How will this effect Xen? It appears that RedHat is behind KVM and investing a significant amount of time and effort into developing it. According to the ZDNET article:

“Stevens also likes the technical approach that Moshe Bar, CTO of KVM backer Qumranet, took with KVM: “He absolutely nailed it,” Stevens said.

However, Stevens said, KVM lags another open-source virtualization technology, Xen, which is the single biggest new feature in the company’s upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. “There’s a year of work, I’d guess, to really make it at parity where Xen is today,” Stevens said.”

It would appear that will inclusion into the Linux kernel, and now inclusion into Fedora we can expect to see KVM offered in RedHat’s Enterprise Linux offering in the next few years.

You can read the interview here.

Tags: KVM, Linux, Open Sourse, RedHat, Virtualization, Xen

Since there is just so many great videos on YouTube, I thought I’d limit myself to 1 video per week in a new segment I call: YouTube Tuesday.

To start this off I thought I’d share a video about the history of the GUI.

Tags: Computers, Microsoft, Xerox