More than half of new servers installed in 2009 will be virtualized, and that number will hit 80% by 2012, signaling huge growth in the hypervisor market, according to a report released at VMworld by TheInfoPro, a research company.
As VMworld kicked off Tuesday, VMware CEO Paul Maritz contended that only virtualization can deliver the next transformation of IT, but he kept casting his gaze back to a technology invented in another era -- the mainframe.
Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released with hundreds of changes from the previous version, including a new architecture for suspend and resume which Linus Torvalds says switches the kernel to a “new world order”.
With the increasing prevalence of virtualization comes the greater need for management of “guest” operating systems that run as virtual machines on the hypervisor, and a new tool called libguestfs is set to provide that on Linux.