KVM plans big boosts to storage and nested virtualization
Project maintainer Paolo Bonzini details open source hypervisor's future directions The Kernel-based Virtual Machine is making waves. Better known as "KVM", the open source hypervisor runs Google's cloud and Cisco's using it as the hypervisor for its network function virtualization efforts. It is widely used by OpenStack users while Nutanix uses it to power the Acropolis code it hopes will see its users ditch VMware."