KVM Gets SMP Guests, Speed Boosts
Posted by Michael Larabel on July 18, 2007
To further enhance the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) in the Linux 2.6.23 kernel is a number of interesting updates. In The Linux 2.6.23 kernel, KVM will now support SMP guests, performance improvements, suspend/resume fixes, and random fixes with other clean-ups. According to chatter on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, the SMP guests on a dual-core system was about 40% faster than a single-core processor. The KVM updates for the Linux 2.6.23-rc1 merging can be read at Google Groups.
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