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1. VMware announced Tuesday Feb 26, 2008 the upcoming availability of servers from a variety of manufacturers that will include a fully integrated preinstalled version of VMware’s virtualization software.

HP, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM, Vmware has arranged to ship its ESX 3i hypervisor virtualization software preinstalled in servers. The products will also come with a trial version of VMware’s Infrastructure 3. While VMware works to capitalize on its position as the leader in the virtualization market, Microsoft is readying its own offering.

More infor can be read at here.

2. One interesting comment about VMware 3i can be found at here.

Red Hat has just released the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Beta on Tue, 11 Mar 2008.:

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta*
release of 5.2 (kernel-2.6.18-84.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 family of products including:

  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86,
    AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, S/390, System p
    and System z
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86, AMD64/Intel(r) 64,
    Itanium Processor Family, S/390, System p and System z
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop for x86 and AMD64/Intel(r)

This beta has some improvements in Xen virtualization:

* Virtualization Enhancements
  + Large System Support
    - Hypercall interface for NUMA topology discovery
    - Optimized placement at guest start up
    - Support in libvirt
    - Physical CPU support increase to 64 CPU/system
    - Large Memory Support increased to 512 GB/system
    - Network interfaces in para-virtualized guests no longer
      limited to 3
  + Libvirt Enhancements
    - Remote management support
    - Manage virtual machines from single instance of virt-manager
    - Enhance virt-manager capabilities to more dynamic management
  + Additional Hardware Support
  + Xen hypervisor rebase to 3.1.2
  + CPU frequency scaling for Xen kernels for reduced power
    consumption (see the Release Notes for list of supported CPUs)

 + Performance and stability improvements

All details can be found at here.