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libvirt 12.0 Released - Bhyve ARM64 Support & Other Improvements For The BSD Hypervisor

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 19:24
Libvirt 12.0 released today as this open-source virtualization API for management across different virtualization technologies/hypervisors. With libvirt 12.0, improving Bhyve as the FreeBSD hypervisor was a big focus...

Linux Patches Bring Mainline Kernel Support For The ASUS IPMI Expansion Card

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 19:15
DeviceTree patches worked on recently allow for the mainline Linux kernel to run on the ASUS "Kommando" IPMI Expansion Card. This is interesting for opening up new possibilities for this external IPMI/BMC expansion card but too bad that less than three years after launching it's difficult to find...

oVirt 4.5.7 Released After Two Years With New OS & CPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 19:00
The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going...

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Released & Designed For Running GenAI Models

Phoronix - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 18:27
In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models...

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