Fedora 16 Provides Improved Virtualization

Fedora 16 offers a range of enhancements to its virtualization and cloud computing capabilities, along with numerous package upgrades and usability improvements.

The improvements it has made to virtual networking

Fedora 16 is designed to make large deployments easier because of the improvements it has made to virtual networking. Another new virtualization enhancement is the updated guest inspection tool called Virt-manager, which enables read-only access to the guest file systems, applications, and Windows registry. Virtualization security is as well augmented by the ability to lock virtual disks so they cannot be accessed by multiple virtual machines simultaneously.

Fedora 16 includes two infrastructure-as-a-service platforms for cloud computing, Aeolus and OpenStack. Aeolus consists of a Web-based interface and tools for managing separate cloud instances. OpenStack provides services for implementing and managing a cloud computing and storage infrastructure. During Aeolus and OpenStack are both IaaS platforms, Aeolus is intended for managing cross-cloud deployments, whereas OpenStack is geared towards building public and private clouds.

Additional cloud computing tools included in Fedora 16 are Pacemaker-cloud, which provides application service high availability for cloud environments, and HekaFS, a cloud-ready version of GlusterFS. HekaFS extends the file system to provide stronger authentication and authorization, encryption, and multi-tenancy.

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