Microsoft & RedHat sign deal on Virtualization interoperability

Red Hat and Microsoft have signed reciprocal agreements today to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers.

Server virtualization is moving towards the commodity model and this is a natural transformation. Crucially, Red Hat's interoperability deal with Microsoft does not include any patent covenants.

Live VM migration across CPU Platforms with RedHat KVM

Those of who you who are familiar with vMotion know that it doesn't work for cross-platform migration (VM to migrate from an Intel to AMD or vice versa). There is no vendor who can provide this feature, except for RedHat KVM.

The below demonstration shows for the first time live migration of a virtual machine across vendor platforms (Intel to AMD or Vice Versa). Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user. This is a great news, where RedHat is leading in the virtualization market.

Note that oVirt/KVM is not yet officially released from RedHat.

Watch the demo on Youtube here.