Red Hat Goes Virtual
     The greatest virtualization company you've probably never heard of is 
now 
  part of Red Hat. 
Qumranet was unknown to me before Redmond magazine Editor Ed Scannell 
  did an interview 
  with its CEO. I found out from Ed (and CEO Benny Schnaider) that Qumranet 
  has an open source Type 2 hypervisor. That means the hypervisor runs on top 
  of an OS (in this case Linux) and the OS runs against the processor. 
Red Hat, which paid just north of $100 million for Qumranet, is now hoping 
  to push this hypervisor, called KVM, as the primary solution for Linux. With 
  Red Hat's muscle and Xen owner Citrix's love of Hyper-V, Red Hat might just 
  get its way.
Red Hat also gets a commercial desktop virtualization product out of the deal. 
  There are quite a few of those in the market already.
 
	
Posted by Doug Barney on September 09, 2008