November 28, 2007 4:38 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Desktop virtualization,
Joseph Foran,
Linux and virtualization,
VDI,
Virtual machine,
Virtualization,
VMwareToday marks an host-oric day, as the first virtual desktops are ready in the lab for my most forward-thinking users (and, as temporary machines, any who happen to suffer hardware failure). As my company is a mid-sized firm, taking this plunge is a bit of "bleeding edge" for us, but it's too...
November 27, 2007 7:07 PM
Posted by: Alex Barrett
Virtualization
There are a lot of vendors talking about virtualization management, but their pitches can sound frightfully similar. One exception is ManageIQ, whose co-founder Joe Fitzgerald lays out some concrete examples of what makes
November 27, 2007 2:13 PM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Virtual machine,
Virtualization,
Virtualization platformsVirtualBox, built by a German company called Innotek, is the underdog of the virtualization market. They are receiving very little press and very little market share, yet it's a fairly...
November 27, 2007 11:35 AM
Posted by: Alex Barrett
VirtualizationHere's one that slipped through the cracks last week: Dell has signed on to resell Virtual Iron, following in the footsteps of Hewlett-Packard and IBM. Virtual Iron's new...
November 27, 2007 10:34 AM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
Virtualization,
VMwareA while back I reported on what was a sticky issue for many people: VMware Server 1.0.4 did not work with the latest Linux kernel (2.6.23+) because the VMware Server memory module used the dumpable bit which had been removed in 2.6.23+ in favor of the GPL v3 exported set_dumpable and get_dumpable...
November 27, 2007 10:33 AM
Posted by: Akutz
Andrew Kutz,
Virtualization,
VMwareThey say the best laid plans of mice and men rarely succeed. It is clear to me then that some of the development team that VMware has working on Server must be what Mulder and Scully were searching for -- not the truth, the other thing, human/alien, (wait, scratch that,) human/mouse...
November 27, 2007 10:27 AM
Posted by: Rick Vanover
Product announcements,
Rick Vanover,
Virtualization,
Virtualization management,
Virtualization platforms,
Virtualization strategies,
XenWith two clear players emerging in the premier virtualization space, VMware's ESX Server platform and the Citrix XenServer, every serious virtualization shop needs to evaluate XenServer for fair comparison. Why? Well, right now ESX is the top product in the popular opinion, but after attending a...
November 21, 2007 2:24 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Desktop virtualization,
Virtual machine,
Virtualization,
Virtualization platformsTwo weeks ago, I wrote an article about VMware ACE virtual desktop alternatives Kidaro and vThere. Michael Brennan, a SearchServerVirtualization.com reader and a principal at the...
November 21, 2007 10:49 AM
Posted by: Joe Foran
Joseph Foran,
Virtual Iron,
Virtualization,
XenJust a few days after my last post about Virtual Iron and their wheeling-and-dealing, they sign an OEM agreement with Dell. This little train is starting to sound more and more like a serious...
