[rhelv5-announce] Announcement: Para-Virtualized Drivers for Fully-Virtualized Guests

[rhelv5-announce redhat com]

Dear Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscribers,

Red Hat is pleased to announce, that a new package containing
para-virtualized (PV) drivers for fully-virtualized Red Hat Enterprise
Linux guests running on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (or later) host
is now available.

PV drivers are virtualization-aware drivers used by a fully-virtualized
guest instance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.1 or later. 

This new package provides PV network and disk drivers for
fully-virtualized guest instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.9, Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1.

To use these drivers, install them into an instance of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3.9, 4.6 or 5.1 running as a fully-virtualized guest on
a x86 or x86-64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (or later) host.
Installation can be done directly, via the Red Hat Network, or manually,
after downloading the RPMs.

All users running fully-virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 3.9, 4.6 or 5.1 on Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 and later hosts should
install these new packages which improve I/O performance significantly
and enable better integration of fully-virtualized guests.

More information can be found in the following Blog:

http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/05/20/%EF%BB%
BFred-hat-releases-para-virtualized-drivers-for-red-hat-enterprise-linux/

Sincerely,

the Red Hat Enterprise Linux team. 

-- 
Daniel Riek, Product Manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc.
E-Mail: riek redhat com, http://www.redhat.com/
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