KVM Provokes Interest in Virtualization Market

The project is based on Qumranet, a stealth-mode start-up. It marks significant changes in virtualization technology related to the ability to make a VM perform like many. The attention drawn to KVM generated competition, which made the developers add new options to the product. This, it turn, makes the situation more complex.

KVM provides a new Linux-based mechanism to split a single physical machine into multiple virtual ones. It's going up against another approach, which uses a low-level software "hypervisor" to perform the same virtualization function.

"In the near term, KVM will cause some pain because of the market confusion and developer dilution it will cause," said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. "But in the longer run, better technical options can only be good for Linux and open source."

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