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Amazon Web Services has revealed that it spent four years working on a new architecture that offloads networking, storage and management tasks from EC2 host servers to dedicated hardware. Speaking at the company's re:Invent conference, the company's veep for global infrastructure Peter Desantis, said the company first put the …

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  1. Bronek Kozicki

    This is interesting

    But I'd also like to hear why they chose KVM as a base for Nitro, rather than Xen. Perhaps on the sister site, soon?

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    1. teknopaul
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      Re: This is interesting

      I was under the impression kvm uses new hardware virtualization and xen is software tricks. I'm sure that reg forum uses can correct me if I'm wrong.

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      1. Bronek Kozicki
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        Re: This is interesting

        That was my impression too - kvm works with vfio (these both being implemented in the kernel). However Xen also has kernel support, so in theory it could support vfio as well.

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