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Novell to Support KVM

Like Red Hat, Novell will support both Xen and KVM – at least in the short term
By Maureen O'Gara
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April 3, 2010 11:00 PM EDT
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Novell Session at Cloud Expo

In a clear case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, it appears that Novell is going to start supporting KVM virtualization like Red Hat does with the Service Pack 1 release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 this summer. According to the HOpen blog it'll handle guest systems for SLES 9-11, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4-5. Host systems can run 32- or 64-bit guests and support up to 16 virtual CPUs, 512GB of RAM and eight network interfaces. Like Red Hat, Novell will support both Xen and KVM - at least in the short term - even preferring Xen for the moment -but where Citrix and its Xen alliance with Novell wind up remain to be seen.

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