A system program that provides a virtual machine environment. The term came from the IBM mainframe world, which first introduced the virtual machine (virtualization) concept in the form of VM, initially as software only and later enhanced with hardware circuits. See virtual machine.
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- Yes, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will run on Linux
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Seven great (and free!) applications for Windows 7
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- VMware's desktop moves
- That's all well and good Dan, but...The bigger picture isn't about VMware, a proprietary product.What is revving up to be the King of Hypervisors is:KVMYep.Take note all you VM'ers.You only need to try this Type 1 Hypervisor just once with Red Hat's Virt-Manager GUI Console to calibrate an understanding.In twenty-five...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- Video Over IP 1.0 (Windows)
- You don't want to compromise an excellent end-user experience when moving to virtual desktops and that's precisely what VDIworks VideoOverIP ensures. VideoOverIP is a remoting protocol designed for virtual desktops. It delivers excellent multimedia performance and multi-monitor capabilities while still allowing you to capitalize on the management improvements, security enhancements...
- Software downloads 2009-11-01
- How would you fix the browser ballot for European Windows users?
- Kill off Opera, or MS should pull out of Europe cause they can afford toMicrosoft should shut down all offices in the EU, pull out of the market entirely, and tell the EU to bugger off.Perhaps the commission will realize they were wrong.Seriously, over a browser, and the order of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Red Hat, Microsoft deliver on virtualization interop promises
- It's more than notable that Red Hat and Microsoft have delivered on some aspects of their cross certification virtualization promises. Here's what was delivered today (verbatim, from the Red Hat press release), following pledges of both companies last February: Validation of Red Hat Enterprise...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- News to know: FTC, Psystar, Vonage, Apple-Palm, Oracle
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: FTC targets bloggers for disclosure about perks, freebies Richard Koman: FTC publishes final rules on blogger...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives
- THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ntTime for Jobs to send the immortalsto fight little Psystar and palsImmortals... We put their name to the test... (movie is so awesome....)And Psystar fights in the shade. nt.....and takes out most of the persian army =) ntnt
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Psystar's Thermopylae: The Nightmare Hypervisor Arrives
- Miami, Florida-based Psystar, which is currently under litigation from Apple for producing Mac-compatible clones and is counter litigating the company for monopolistic practices, has announced that they are OEM licensing their virtualization technology and ICAP so that any PC vendor may easily produce Mac clones. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial
- I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Review: Snow Leopard ramps up performance and business-readiness of Mac OS X
- Graphic Artists on MacDo Graphic Artists really have a compelling reason to use Macs anymore? Adobe CS3 isn't supported on Snow Leopard. If you want to use 64bit versions of Adobe CS4, you have to use Windows. And even on the same hardware, programs like After Effects and Photoshop...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-08
- VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
- Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Red Hat becomes bona fide virtualization vendor
- It's no surprise that Red Hat is taking pot shots at VMware and Microsoft these days. The Raleigh, NC company has always slammed Microsoft but is not just a Linux vendor anymore. By virtue of its acquisition of Qumranet and its release of Enterprise Linux 5.4 this...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- When is a VMware cloud a vCloud? Let the API wars begin
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- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- VMWare, Microsoft target SMBs with new virtual offerings
- VMWare and Microsoft aim to bring the benefits of virtualization to more small to medium sized businesses. At VMWorld 2009 this week, VMWare introduced a web service called Go that is designed to simplify the configuration and installation of ESXi, the company's hypervisor,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Virtualization: a good idea but still some growing pains to consider
- It's a solution in search of a problemHow on earth is virtualization going to reduce complexity? The only way to reduce complexity is to use *one* platform of course.[Repeat]How on earth is virtualization going to increase security? The holes in windows will still be there, won't they?This shouldn't sell.Show me...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Xen.org: Stop the forking. Forrester: About time
- Xen.org, the open source community behind the leading IaaS cloud computing hypervisor finally made a bold move today by stepping up to the plate of delivering a complete open source virtual infrastructure for cloud platforms. Prior to this release, Xen.org had been content to manage and maintain the core Xen...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It Virtually
- RE: Apple's Snow Leopard Completely Blows It VirtuallyI think there is a lack of understanding of Apple's goals here. Mac OS can run perfectly fine on commodity hardware from Dell, etc. they just purposely prevent it from doing so. (Check out all the "Hackintosh" OS X boot-loaders if...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-30
- Supporting Cloud Computing With the Virtual Block Store System
- The fast development of cloud computing systems stimulate the needs for a standalone block storage system, which can provide persistent block storage services to the virtual machines maintained by the clouds. This paper presents the Virtual Block Store VBS System, a standalone block storage system built on the basis of...
- White papers 2009-08-27
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