Alternative to qemu-kvm: cloonix_kvm

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 28, 2012

There is movement in virtualisation and more particularly in the virtual network field with VMware buying Nicira.
Virtualisation is now seen as a whole, machines and network are managed together, this is a good time to promote a new arrival in linux virtualisation: cloonix, combining the switchs and the machine creation, cloonix makes it possible to have a whole network infrastructure with configurable switches and kvm virtual machines in a single PC for prototyping networks before deployment.

Web Webster

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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