Virtualization

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going. The oVirt 4.5.7 release adds support for CentOS 10 and AlmaLinux 10. On the hardware side there is support for newer server...

Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus. Libvirt 12.0 brings several new features for the Bhyve BSD hypervisor support. Most notable is now having initial ARM64 support to support booting ARM64 domains on ARM64 hosts. Libvirt 12.0 Bhyve support also includes SLIRP networking support and VirtIO-SCSI device support. Libvirt 12.0 on the QEMU side brings improvements/fixes to firmware selection, the networking code added a port for the DNS forwarder,...