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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. Re:This is still unreleased test demo's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, there is no real beauty in this. It's a hack intended to work around a kludge.

    Why in the *hell* would you even think of putting different vendors in any (let alone virtualization) kind of cluster? That's rule number one in large-scale computing--make all the hardware identical, and if that's not possible, make it as similar as you can. Consistent platforms are reliable platforms.

    This is like blowing the engine in a Ford and electing to put a Chevy engine in to replace it. Stupid.

  2. #irc.trolltalk.cOm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    AWESOME move any equipment (I always bring my Future at aal under the GPL. And/or distribute hapless *BSD fun to be again. sorely diminished.

  3. Re:This is still unreleased test demo's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I would agree with your analogy except that if I was stupid enough to buy a Ford I would deserve it to break and then I could redeem myself with buying a much better motor. (Chevy) Moving to a more reliable platform (Chevy) is never stupid.

  4. VMWare, the latest 1-product-company fighting M$ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it just me or does any other VMWare user worry about the future of a company which has 1 product and is now going head to head with microsofts (inferior) play in this space, Hyper-V?

    History is littered with 1-product companies like VMWare who lost out to a weak product from Redmond, pitched at a low (free?) price and bundled with their main OS.

    Hyper-V is only 30 bucks with windows server 2008, and allows 4 free Windows 2003 instances before you have to pay any more.

    Anyone else remember Netscape? What about Stacker? The list goes on...

    VMWare user.