Colin Steele, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Sun xVM, Virtual IronOracle has stopped selling Virtual Iron products, terminated its Virtual Iron reseller agreements and...
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Colin Steele, Oracle, Oracle VM, server virtualization, Sun Microsystems, Sun xVM
You may have heard this morning that Oracle acquired Sun...
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Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, VirtualBox, VirtualizationThe configuration for virtual machine (VM) tasks that involve booting from anything other than the virtual disk can be inconvenient. Sun xVM VirtualBox offers a functionality that allows the boot order to...
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Desktop virtualization, Networking, Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, Virtualization managementFellow virtualization expert Andrew Kutz has argued that future virtual...
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Product announcements, Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, VirtualBoxSun has released version 2.0 of the xVM VirtualBox workstation hypervisor. This major release offers new features including support for 64-bit guest operating systems, an improved GUI console, some performance enhancements, support for...
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Citrix XenServer, Embedded Virtualization, hardware, Intel, Open source, Oracle VM, Servers, Sun xVM, Virtual machine, Virtualization platforms, Xen, XenSourceXen.org announced the release of a new version of the project's open source hypervisor, Xen 3.3 today, with enhancements to security, performance and scalability.
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Desktop virtualization, hardware, Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, VDI, VirtualizationSelecting a VDI environment is a daunting process. As I begin to evaluate technologies for VDI design and implementation for an upcoming project, the first step is often to identify the requirements from the end-user perspective. Administrators frequently get wrapped up in the server side of a...
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Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, VirtualBox, Virtualization, Virtualization platforms, Virtualization strategiesSun xVM VirtualBox offers a powerful command-line interface (CLI) component, VBoxManage, which can perform most functions within VirtualBox. Having a robust CLI is key to automation and scripting, even in a workstation virtualization product. In my continued coverage of VirtualBox, this blog will...
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Embedded Virtualization, Sun xVM, Virtual machine, VirtualBox, Virtualization, Virtualization platformsSanta Clara, California-based Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced a handful of multi-year original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech Ltd. to allow them to deliver Sun's xVM VirtualBox...
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Product announcements, Rick Vanover, Sun xVM, VirtualBoxSun has released VirtualBox 1.6.4, and the upgrade process requires some forward planning. Version 1.6.4 is a collection of fixes to the previous release that mostly revolve around shared folders and the VRDP (VirtualBox Remote Desktop Protocol) implementation. Here is what you need to know if...
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