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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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Linux: Xen Merged
The Xen virtual machine monitor was recently merged into the upcoming 2.6.23 Linux kernel in a series of patches from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. The project was originally started as a research project at...
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Virtual Machine Time Accounting
"The aim of these four patches is to introduce Virtual Machine time accounting," began Laurent Vivier. He described the first two patches as:"1) As recent CPUs introduce a third running state, after...
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Dm-band, Block I/O Bandwidth Controller
"I'm happy to announce that I've implemented a Block I/O bandwidth controller,"began Ryo Tsuruta, explaining that it was intended to be used in a cgroup or virtual machine environment, implemented as a...
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