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Linux: Improved KVM Performance, Vista Support

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2007

“Avi Kivity 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 mainline
Linux kernel, KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, ‘a full
virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing
virtualization extensions.’ Regarding the new release, Avi
announced:

“‘The happy theme of today’s kvm is the significant performance
improvements, brought to you by a growing team of developers. I’ve
clocked kbuild at within 25% of native. This release also
introduces support for 32-bit Windows Vista…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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