Red Hat ties virtualisation future to KVM

Tuesday, February 24 2009 @ 01:49 PM EST

Contributed by: sde

Red Hat is to build the KVM hypervisor into the next version of its Enterprise Linux offering, the company announced on Monday.

The inclusion of the virtual machine monitor in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 forms parts of the company's wider virtualisation strategy, which was also outlined on Monday. Despite this strategy being based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), Red Hat will continue to support existing Xen-based deployments for the full lifetime of RHEL 5, the company said in a statement. Tools and services will be provided to help customers migrate from their Xen deployments to KVM.

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