Blog posts tagged
"kvm"

15 posts

Canonical
12 September 2023

Faster AI application development with Canonical and NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Article Ubuntu

Ubuntu KVM support comes to NVIDIA AI Enterprise Canonical continues to expand its collaboration with NVIDIA by providing Ubuntu KVM Hypervisor support with NVIDIA AI Enterprise 4.0 — which is generally available starting today. Organisations using GPU virtualisation on Ubuntu can look forward to a seamless migration to...

Canonical
12 September 2023

Tytus Kurek
9 August 2023

What is virtualization? A beginner’s guide

Article Cloud and server

While information technology continues to evolve rapidly, virtualization remains a cornerstone of modern computing, enabling businesses to maximise resource utilisation, enhance flexibility, and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO). It is a key building block of the cloud computing paradigm, and millions of...

Tytus Kurek
9 August 2023

Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021

KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide

Article Cloud and server

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns underlying physical servers into hypervisors so that they can host multiple, isolated virtual machines (VMs). KVM comes with no licenses, type-1 hypervisor...

Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Need to set up servers in remote locations?

Article Cloud and server

Use bare metal provisioning with a top-of-the-rack switch When deploying a small footprint environment such as edge computing sites, 5G low latency services, a site support cabinet or baseband unit, its critical to establish the optimal number of physical servers needed for set up. While several approaches exist, bare...

Marcin Bednarz
6 June 2019

Canonical
20 December 2017

Early experiences with PXE (net-)boot of KVM VMs on Ubuntu for s390x

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on the Ubuntu On Big Iron blog This article mainly assumes that an Ubuntu Server 17.10 (artful) is installed in LPAR. Ubuntu 17.10 comes with a qemu-kvm version that is new enough to act as a KVM host that also allows to PXE netboot KVM virtual machines. Any potentially different or

Canonical
20 December 2017

Canonical
18 October 2017

MAAS KVM Pods

Article Cloud and server

This is a guest post by Michael Iatrou, cloud solutions architect at Canonical OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy...

Canonical
18 October 2017

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

Article Cloud and server

DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like...

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Charming 2.0 – Now with 100% more awesome

Article Cloud and server

Editors Note: This post is one of many in a series covering the newpatterns in charming. This first post will be information heavy andcover a walkthrough of the techonologies at play. Video content andadditional tutorials will follow.It’s been an exciting couple of months for the Juju Charmers. If you’ve beenfollowing...

Charles Butler
22 October 2015

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

It’s all about containers! ODS keynote

Videos Cloud and server

It’s all about containers. All attention is turning to new and innovative variants of this cloud development technology. From LXC and Docker to our recent introduction, LXD – all signs point to an explosion in appetite for for containers, and the many benefits they bring to developers. Containers are revolutionizing the...

Tom Callway
25 June 2015

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Article Cloud and server

The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS,...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

Videos Cloud and server

This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views,...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

Article Cloud and server

652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest...

Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

Canonical
3 June 2015

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Article Cloud and server

Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of IoT related apps. If you are like me and have a Beagle Bone and a Raspberry Pi 2 and several old netbooks and

Canonical
3 June 2015

Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

Article Cloud and server

LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than...

Canonical
18 May 2015

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