"Today's new kvm architecture is ia64, aka Itanium 2. Like s390, it is only provided in the git tree, not in the tarball. Windows and Linux guests are supported."
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KVM would be a great product if...
KVM would be a great product if there were paravirtual drivers for non-Linux systems (specifically, Windows, as it is what would be virtualized along Linux in majority of cases).
Without them, I/O performance is really bad when compared to VMware or to products which have paravirtual drivers already (commercial Xen releases).
Lately, there is some activity in creating open-source PV Windows drivers for Xen, but it's not that stable as of yet.
KVM Drivers
Here you go! http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599
32-bit guests only is a bit of a drag, but it does work with 64-bit hosts which is nice. Hopefully that gets some attention soon.
Great news!
Great news, thank for giving this link!
I'll evaluate it when I have some free time, if it works well, I'll finally replace VMware hosts with KVM!
Looks like I was happy too
Looks like I was happy too fast - it's network drivers only, so disk access will be poor, still.