KVM Matures, and the Use Cases Multiply (Linux.com)

Over at Linux.com, Adam Jollans has a report from the recently completed KVM Forum that was held in Düsseldorf, Germany October 14-16. He looks at a talk that he gave on KVM's relationship to OpenStack and the open cloud, a new white paper on KVM [PDF], and a panel on network function virtualization (NFV): "In the past, communications networks have been built with specific routers, switches and hubs with the configuration of all the components being manual and complex. The idea now is to take that network function, put it into software running on standard hardware. The discussion touched on the demands – in terms of latency, throughput, and packet jitter – that network function virtualization places on KVM when it is being run on general purpose hardware and used to support high data volume. There was a lively discussion about how to get fast communication between the virtual machines as well as issues such as performance and sharing memory, as attendees drilled down into how KVM could be applied in new ways."

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