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Linux: Improving KVM Performance With A Tickless Kernel
Avi Kivity suggested that combining KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine [story], with the dyntick patch [story] could improve overall KVM performance. He noted that it would likely improve...
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Interview: Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity is the lead developer and maintainer of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine project, better known as kvm. The project was started in mid-2006, and has been part of the Linux kernel since the...
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Linux: Improved KVM Performance, Vista Support
Avi Kivity [interview] announced significant performance improvements and support for running 32-bit Windows Vista as a guest within the latest release of KVM. Originally merged into the 2.6.20...
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Linux: KVM Adds Support For SMP Guests
A recently merged KVM patchset included support for guest SMP, various performance improvements, and suspend/resume fixes. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, "a full virtualization solution...
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Merge Window KVM Updates
Avi Kivitiy posted numerous KVM updates which Linus Torvalds merged into his mainline kernel source tree to be included in the upcoming 2.6.24 kernel. Avi summarized:"Highlights include in-kernel...
View ArticleQuote: You Must Be Planning To Live Forever
"Do we really need 128-bit time? You must be planning to live forever."
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2.6.25 KVM Updates
Avi Kivity summarized the kvm patches bound for the 2.6.25 kernel:"Changes include performance and scalability improvements, completion of the portability work (though no new architectures are...
View ArticleQuote: The Big Item (In More Ways Than One)
"The big item (in more ways than one) for this release is the addition of s390 support. As it is not actually provided in the tarball, you will need to use git to fetch it. You will also need a...
View ArticleQuote: Today's New kvm Architecture
"Today's new kvm architecture is ia64, aka Itanium 2. Like s390, it is only provided in the git tree, not in the tarball. Windows and Linux guests are supported."
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