I could never understand why the makers of KVM the virtual machine thing didn't realize they had overloaded an acronym. It isn't as if they weren't likely to have come across KVMs in their work. Were they non-native-English speakers perhaps?
Software devs aren't sysadmins, I imagine most of the people involved here never have been responsible for actual production physical servers before and never had to use one.
Web front end developers sure. Kernel hackers though??
I opened the link because I was wondering what is it talking about when KVM (the virtual machine) is more popular today than ever. :)
Great, so there won't be confusion anymore! :)
... which makes this a total non-story in my opinion :)
Of course KVM switches will eventually disappear; when was the last time any of us (minus datacenter staff) has been to the server room since the dawn of the PaaS age?
I wouldn't think they are common in data centers either with all the good OOB management tools now available.
I've only used KVM switches on the desktop. Try to think outside your own experiences.
Thanks! I was wondering why none of the comments made sense.
The title of the post should be modified to say "KVM switch".