Red Hat's Virtualization Plan for 2009

RedHat is moving away from Xen and towards KVM. KVM will be available in a package called RHEV-H: a stateless hypervisor, with a tight footprint of under 128MB, which presents a libvirt interface to the management tier. Enterprise servers will no longer need to go through an installation process, and will instead be able to boot RHEV-H from flash or a network server, and be able to immediately begin servicing virtual guests. KVM will also be native to RHEL5.4. RedHat will also be working with Microsoft to certify hosting of Windows servers on top of their virtualization platform.

Update: Useful links:

• Ubuntu: howto
• Fedora: package howto wiki
• CentOS: package
• KVM: home faq