Hello all, 2 months ago, I had a discussion [1] on this Mailing-List with Haydn Solomon and Wes Felter about KVM and the raging competition on the hypervisor market.
I am perfectly aware that this is a technical Mailing-List so I'll try to cut the business crap short, but still I think every company is presently trying to have their solution be "The Hypervisor" present on the hardware by default: Since the discussion, phoenix has announced that they would make a "BIOS hypervisor", Sun and Oracle announced their own hypervisors based on Xen and last week Microsoft announced that they will sell Hyper-V (the new name for their viridian hypervisor) as a stand alone product for only 28$ [3]. As a sysadmin, I hate not having choice or being forced to use a broken design just because "it's here". I strongly believe in KVM and think it's the cleanest design available at the moment, and I'm sure most of the people on this ML also do. So, I took a moment to build an embedded distribution based on KVM that I codenamed "endemics" [4], because I would really like to see KVM present everywhere. This distribution is build using only opensource and will always be opensource. I have a beta3 image of my first release [5] that I consider mature enough to be publicly announced here, even though this release is 64 bits only. What I need now is testing on as many platforms as possible, and test reports so I know what need to be improved or fixed. Testing shouldn't take you too long: just download the disk image, copy it to an usb key and boot your usual kvm box on this key! No installation required! I hope you will find this project useful and will find time to help me improving it by testing! Best regards, Gildas -- [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06463.html [2] http://investor.phoenix.com/en/about+phoenix/investors/news+releases/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=273099&Year=2007 [3] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx [4] http://www.endemics.info/ [5] http://www.endemics.info/download ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
