At a virtual server where there is a collection of servers with similar performance, the least-connection scheduling is good for smoothing distribution when the load of requests varies a lot because ...

Since 2007, when the Linux 2.6.20 kernel was released, Linux has had its own built-in hypervisor: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). What was nice about that was that it made virtualization easy if ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

Those of us who use Linux on a daily basis greatly appreciate its power and flexibility, not to mention its resistance to virus threats. Linux's raw performance, stability and incredible toolset all ...

Although most server virtualization software can run on just about anything and still work, users need to invest in good hardware if they’re serious about virtualization, early users say. This is ...

New bare-metal hypervisor allows Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux virtual servers to operate side-by-side on Mac server hardware Parallels, known for its cloud services automation and virtualization ...

VMware is warning that ESXi VMs running on Linux kernel 5.19 can have up to a 70% performance drop when Retbleed mitigations are enabled compared to the Linux kernel 5.18 release. More specifically, ...