Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 Beta includes support for virtual desktops

Enterprise software maker Red Hat announced on Monday that it has updated its platform (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) to include support for desktop virtualization.

REV is a package of various applications to provide integrated enterprise virtualization. It comes with a virtualized management console, as well as a bare-metal KVM hypervisor (based on the kernel of the virtual machine).

According to Andrew Cutrow, senior marketing manager, the new version will allow you to deploy RHEL, Windows XP or Windows 7, on a secure hypervisor platform, of high performance.

This version includes REV SPICE, for remote control of the computer. Red Hat acquired this software in 2008 with the purchase of Qumranet.
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Previously, these features were available as a separate standalone beta REV application, but with version 2.2 for servers and desktops, these two editions are combined into one package.

“We believe that it is important to have a single platform. “Customers don't want one tool for the desktop and one tool for the servers,” commented Andrew.

In addition to desktop virtualization, REV 2.2 includes a number of new features. Chief among them is the ability to import virtual machines from platforms such as: VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft. To this end, REV uses an open virtualization format (OVF). It is also the first release of V2V virtualization that can convert virtual machines created in Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM to virtual machines into VMware or Xen. Red Hat also plans to add features that will allow conversions of virtual machines built on Microsoft Windows platforms, as well as simplify the transfer (of virtual machines) from other hypervisor platforms to REV.

Cutrow said that final version 2.2 should be released "by the end of spring." He does not disclose prices, but noted that the price for REV 2.1 is $ 499 for standard socket support and $ 749 for additional socket support. Customers subscribing to version 2.1 will be able to upgrade to version 2.2.

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