http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.0/html/Administration_Guide/KVM_Clock_Appendix.html Summary: append to VM’s kernel, for i386,i686 => ‘divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm’, for x86_64 => ‘divider=10 notsc’ This is needed to fix the drifting clock issue on VMs that are not using pv_clock driver
http://openvswitch.org/ right now ppl are using linux bridges as virtual switches for XEN/KVM VMs. Open vSwitch is an improvement over linux bridge that supports industry standard protocol and features and IOS-like CLI – [when project matures] ]you should be able trunk your VM server with cisco switch and expand it into the server with all features supported and backed by a standard config.
http://www.opennet.ru/openforum/vsluhforumID3/65661.html#23 Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-libvirt/index.html useful article about “libvirt” - a common management interface for different visualization software
http://www.montanalinux.org/interview-red-hat-rhev.html Some info about redhat new product RHEV (RedHat Enterprise Virtualization), which is based on SolidICE (KVM-based) product from Qumranet, which has been recently acquired by RedHat.
http://lwn.net/Articles/321702/ Message to Kernel Mailing List about differences between XEN and KVM .
http://ovirt.org/ new project from redhat to provide management console for XEN, KVM [and everything that can be managed via libvirt]