Ubuntu bucks trend, goes for KVM virtualisation
Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualisation software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server both use the Xen virtualisation software, a "hypervisor" layer that lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. In contrast, the KVM software runs on top of a version of Linux, the "host" operating system that provides a foundation for other "guest" operating systems to run in a virtual mode.
"We've chosen to settle on KVM as our main virtualisation focus," Soren Hansen, the Ubuntu Server Team's 26-year-old virtualisation specialist, said in the Ubuntu Weekly News.
