Koen Vervloesem has done a great writeup on ConVirt 1.0 over at LWN.net. Koen seems to have come away with a very positive first impression.

From the article:

ConVirt is an interesting solution for system administrators with a lot of servers and virtual machines to manage. One central dashboard to install, monitor and manage virtual machines should be more than welcome. On the server side there is virtually no extra work: a user only needs to run the setup tool once to configure the server correctly.

Read the full article here.