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- ProxMox 0.9
- ProxMox KVM/OpenVZ Virtualization Distro by Jason Perlow
- Image galleries 2008-06-24
- ProxMox: The high-performance virtualization server for the rest of us
- What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers? It's the ProxMox Virtual Environment, a new open source project that has been flying under the hypervisor radar, but may pose a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Parallels releases its Hypervisor -- on the Mac
- Today, virtualization vendor Parallels released the first version of its Server hypervisor for x86 hardware. The surprising thing about it is that it chose to go to release with its Mac version first. Parallels first came to market with its desktop-based virtualization products...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud
- Enomaly is a software developer in Toronto whose open source cloud computing platform is getting a lot of attention these days. The platform, Enomalism, is a virtual infrastructure tool that allows customers create their own cloud capacity and move virtual machines from one's data center or from...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- A (Linux) use for x86 virtualization?
- A Linux use for x86 virtualization?VMware for Linuxis a pretty good product. I tried out Xen a few weeks back. You need to 1) install the Xen hypervisor (NOTE: you must have some pretty expensive processors to do both Windoze and Linux - Opteron) 2) Install the controller software on...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-26
- SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 beta
- SWsoft Virtuozzo's Version 4 betadriversI do not agree that SWsoft can actually be compared to VM Ware for example. The type of partitioning SW soft has one general architechtual problem many virtual machines are residing on general purpose OS that has not being designed to optimize the performance of many...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Virtualization: The emerging hardware vs. OS bundle debate
- Virtualization: The emerging hardware vs. OS bundle debateDon't buy VMWare stock right now. They are doing virtualization the wrongway, and they have competition from Xen and soon Microsoft. But, the real competition is doing virtualization the right way in the OS kernel so that you only have one image of...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-11
- Scalent Systems wins best virtualization solution at Linuxworld
- I just heard the news that Scalent Systems was awarded "Best Virtualization Solution" at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. Since quite a number of virtualization technology providers or technology projects were at the event; such as FastScale, OpenVZ, SteelEye, SWsoft, VirtualLogix and 3Leaf Systems; that's quite a complement.For those of...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Andrew Morton opens up at LinuxWorld
- The Linux kernel's No. 2 developer said there are no plans to embrace GPL 3 or change the kernel development process. And he tried to dispel concerns that the Linux kernel will fork.In his 90 minute talk and extended Q&A session opening up LinuxWorld Expo 2007 Monday afternoon, Linux kernel...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?some nuancesGenerally you are right -- different projects exists because they are from the different classes, implementing different approaches to virtualization.Still, there are some nuances:1. UML is para-virtualization in fact, have nothing in common with OpenVZ (aka partitioning, aka containers). Quick...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- The virtualization community has been hearing quite a bit about KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine since it was included in Version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel. It was interesting that this technology was included in the kernel relatively shorty after it first emerged while Xen still has not been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries (prologue): The Good, the Bad, and the horribly Ugly
- The Desktop Virtualization Diaries prologue: The Good, the Bad, and the horribly UglyWorkstation 6 can show battery statusGo to VM > Settings > Options > Power and select Report battery information to guest. Then, in the VM, make sure your OS is set to display the battery status.You need to...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers
- Off late enterprise data centers are shifting towards a utility computing model where many business critical applications share a common pool of infrastructure resources that offer capacity on demand. Management of such a pool requires having a control system that can dynamically allocate resources to applications in real time. Although...
- White papers 2007-04-24
- The virtues of virtualization
- The virtues of virtualizationAn OS with virtue doesn't need virtualization...OS virtualization is an expensive proposition, with significant overhead unless you make the hosted systems less like separate operating systems and more like cooperating multitasking applications. Better is to have an operating system that's designed from the start to run many...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- OpenVZ virtualization heads to Power chips
- OpenVZ virtualization heads to Power chipsThats a rap: Linux on XboxLonghorn appears to be following IBM's old workspace on demand concept where OS/2 or some other Microsoft Windows product (OS/2 was a Microsoft product at the time, could be configured for serving up to desktop devices from an OS/2 server....
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- Next Microsoft Virtual Server slips to 2007
- Next Microsoft Virtual Server slips to 2007Next Microsoft Virtual Server slips to 2007You can't rush good code. If this delay means a better quality product then I'm all for it. Besides, the demand for virtual servers isn't that great so this delay will not hurt anyone.To be released...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Companies push Linux partitioning effort
- Companies push Linux partitioning effortHow do you do this in Windows Vista?Now this is something thats very cool and handy to boot!Will Vista have something like Xen? no virtualpc is not the same. Because if SuSE and Redhat are coming out now with this, Vista, with only eye candy, will...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-17
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