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With openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 just around the corner, lets have a quick look at the roadmap for openSUSE 11.1. With the big issues with the Intel e1000 NIC issues causing havok all around (not caused by openSUSE as such) in openSUSE 11.1 Beta and now being resolved, the current release of openSUSE 11.1 is Beta 3 where the main change since Beta 2 are Live CDs for x86 and GNOME and KDE OpenOffice.org 3.0 Mono 2.0 Final Linux 2.6.27.1 with a major fix for Intel e1000e NIC card issue CUPS 1.3.9 Amarok 2.0 beta 2 Banshee 1.3.2 GNOME 2.24Read More →

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT (vmx) or AMD-V (svm). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream. KVM is a free opensource virtualization software and is included in Linux Kernel version 2.6.20 and above. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualizedRead More →