IBM, Red Hat, etc. create an open virtualization alliance against VMware

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According to foreign media reports, yesterday, a number of big-name technology companies held in San Francisco in Tuesday at the open source software business meeting announced the formation of an open virtualization alliance. The alliance includes IBM, HP, Intel, KVM Linux's leading publisher, Red Hat, and companies such as Novell, BMC, and Eucalyptus bae. The creation of this industry organization is designed to speed up the application of the open source virtualization stack based on the KVM management program, and to confront the major vendor VMware in the Virtualization field.

The goal of the organization is to increase the visibility of KVM and encourage software partners to make tools that allow KVM to be more than just a commercialization management program and help improve the overall management and deployment of applications running on KVM.

The KVM (full name is kernel-based virtual Machine) is a fully functional virtualization solution on the Linux x86 hardware platform, containing a loadable kernel module Kvm.ko providing and virtualizing core architectures and Processor specification modules. The use of KVM allows multiple, including Linux and Windows, for each virtual machine to have proprietary hardware, including network adapters, disks, and graphics adapter cards.

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