20090701 SELinux and KVM Inside Fedora in Review

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Recognize the Real Promise of Hosted Desktop Virtualization

In the case of Red Hat's hosted desktop virtualization solution, this is achieved through the use of Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), sVirt and the KVM hypervisor. This combination of open source technologies provides a level of isolation equivalent to that which exists in physical deployments, and in doing so dramatically increases the security of virtual desktops and the hypervisors on which they reside.

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/Features/Red-Hat-20090630.html Linux virtualisation hypervisor KVM hits release 87

The native Linux virtualisation hypervisor Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) has reached milestone 87 and now integrates the qemu emulator into a single package. Scores of changes have occurred since the 86 release last month, and with the merge of qemu upstream brings better tuning and visibility of the live migration process, the setting of qcow2 (qemu disk image format) cluster size is now allowed, qcow2 optimisations, and networking improvements.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/309586/linux_virtualisation_hypervisor_kvm_hits_release_87 Big Thanks To The SELinux Team

I started using Fedora back in the Fedora 8 days. I’ve always tried to run SELinux in enforcing mode and back in the Fedora 8-9 days that seemed to mean I’d have some SELinux issue every few days. It wasn’t a big deal, but it was annoying and very tempting to turn it off completely.

http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/big-thanks-to-the-selinux-team/

Recent

Red Hat's standalone hypervisor goes beta

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat threw its, er, red hat into the virtualization ring back in February when it announced it was creating a standalone Enterprise Virtualization hypervisor based on KVM to compete with the likes of VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix Systems. Today, that standalone hypervisor and the tools to manage it for servers and desktops moved into beta.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/16/redhat_rhev_beta/

Red Hat makes KVM its Linux virtualization of choice

Despite Red Hat’s surprising announcement last week that it would be partnering with Microsoft on virtualization, on February 23rd, Red Hat’s announced that it would be switching its virtualization strategy from a mix of virtualization programs, including the Microsoft-friendly Xen, to focusing on Linux’s baked-in KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) KVM, as Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens admitted during a press call, is still a work in progress. But, Stevens assured the audience, by working with IBM and Intel, Red Hat will be able to deliver its full Red Hat Virtualization portfolio within the next 12-months. The first fruits of this switch will appear in RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.4, which is due out in August 2009.

http://practical-tech.com/infrastructure/red-hat-makes-kvm-its-linux-virtualization-of-choice/

KVM virtualisation in Red Hat Linux next year

Red Hat will be in a position to offer Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM), the open source virtualisation it garnered with the acquisition of Qumranet, in the first half of 2009. Asked by CBR when Red Hat will be able to offer the KVM technology as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the firm’s president and CEO Jim Whitehurst said it is “highly likely” that it would be during calendar 2009 but would not be drawn further.

http://opensource.cbronline.com/news/kvm_virtualisation_in_red_hat_linux_next_year_021208

Related: Red Hat acquires Qumranet

Red Hat Inc has acquired Qumranet Inc, the makers of SolidIce. The acquisition of Israel-based company adds a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) product to Red Hat's product portfolio. Red Hat paid $107 million for Qumranet. Qumranet's SolidICE product provides a kernel based virtual machine based around the open source KVM project which they also sponsor. The KVM project has been incorporated into the mainstream Linux kernel since version 2.6.20.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Red-Hat-acquires-Qumranet--/news/111466