So I am having a bit of an argument with a colleage. He thinks it is perfectly okay for our smallish outfit to use nothing but Linux + Libvirt + KVM to manage "one-off" needs like hosting backup ...

One of the cooler new features in KVM/libvirt is using "direct access" Ethernet devices (where the host creates, in essence, a kind of alias on an interface that the guest has direct access to), ...

KVM is the kernel-based virtual machine, a mainline kernel feature since versuib 2.6.20 for running virtualized guest systems on top of a host system. In less technical terms, this means you can run ...

In recent years, hardware virtualization has become commonplace in the computing industry and more available to end users. The idea behind it is a noble one. Why invest in allocating more server ...