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Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors

Posted by kdawson on from the dude-where's-my-virtualization-business dept.

An anonymous reader notes an Inquirer story reporting on something of a breakthrough in virtual machine management — a demonstration (not yet a product) of migrating a running virtual machine across CPUs from different vendors (video here). "Red Hat and AMD have just done the so called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors, potentially commoditizing server processors. This is quite a feat. Only a few months ago during VMworld, Intel and VMware claimed that this was impossible. Judging by an initial response, VMware is quite irked by this KVM accomplishment and they are pointing to stability concerns. This sound like scaremongering to me ... All the interesting controversy aside, cross-vendor migration is [obviously] a good thing for customers because it avoids platform lock-in."

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  1. Bravo! by Cornwallis · · Score: 4, Funny

    I love to see things like this that give me a greater freedom to migrate off the major players.

  2. This was in all likelyhood faked. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Open source is for morons.

    Only Apple has the engineering know-how and skills to pull of something like this. The fact that they have not done so to date is a clear indication that it is impossible.