Red Hat has announced a new portfolio of visualization solutions, including a new standalone hypervisor that will include Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology.Qumranet is the inventor and key maintainer of KVM, the only virtualization technology that is fully incorporated into the Linux kernel. Red Hat views KVM as the next generation of virtualization technology it combines support for the latest hardware virtualization capabilities and the rapid feature development of the Linux kernel into a complete, highly functional, virtualization platform.
Red Hat believes that a strong coupling between the hypervisor and the kernel is a major advantage. Qumranet also developed SolidICE, a high-performance, scalable, desktop virtualization solution built specifically for virtual desktops, not simply a retrofit from server virtualization solutions. SolidICE is designed to enable a user's Windows or Linux desktop to run in a virtual machine that is hosted on a central server.
It is based on the industry-leading Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) protocol, which overcomes key barriers to VDI adoption, including a superior user experience enabled by the SPICE protocol capabilities. SolidICE offers superiority over competition in three aspects:
A user experience indistinguishable from a physical PC (Windows and Linux desktops) via the SPICE remote rendering technology
3-5x cost-performance improvement over retrofitted server actualization solutions
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